Two weeks in.

It’s been two weeks today since we moved into the new house. Just thought I’d say that. No, the IT situation isn’t loads better, but I’m working on it. Between assessments and other stuff.

If this stupid HP thing would play nice with hpoj and FreeBSD, I’d be sweet (well, you know, still gotta learn OpenLDAP and the rest of it, but sweeter), but of course that’s not likely to happen in a hurry. I’ve decided if it still isn’t working by this weekend I’m going to revert to trying with Parallel cables. Tis a sad day indeed.

In other news, the Commander system has been working okay, but there are more than a handful of moments of frustration when trying to get other devices to play nice on the system (e.g. not sanctioned HX308 phones), so for the moment we’ve installed a cordless handset in parallel to the Commander system (that is, not on a system port) — that means it’s out of reach of the rest of the PBX, but at least it can make phone calls (which is good, seeing it’s cordless and the HX308 things all aren’t). Some issues with line noise, but then the cordless thing is currently connected by a socket hanging out of a wall connected in about 30 seconds by yours truely. Oh, and if you’re from Austel, I just made all that up.