Oops. (new job, day two)

[da]

I was just cleaning my office phone. One of the buttons links me to the voice-dial directory. I apparently hit that, and the sound of me cleaning the phone sounded sufficiently like a name, and dimly through the earpiece I heard something like, "Do you wish to talk to Kim Chopper?"

Thanks but... not really.

My old office is just as I remember. Except it's missing a filing cabinet. Which could leave me room for a comfy chair, though I think that might be politically tricky since nobody else in CSCF has a comfy chair. *pout* (Murphy bed in file cabinet? Hmmm.)

I have a brand new iMac, with a wide-screen extra monitor (2x1680x1050 desktop yay), and I've got a project to start with, making improvements to the department's DHCP services. Also: I have coworkers! They make geeky jokes and are glad to see me!

It's good to be back.

Challenges on day one: my work calendar (Oracle Calendar) isn't compatible with gmail calendar, iCal.app, or my phone. [ETA: maybe. I can manually import/export .ical files, and maybe there's a way to subscribe to Oracle's data. But probably not.]

My personal task-tracking system isn't compatible with the hacked-up version of RT we use. I have no idea how I should record my work tasks, since our RT isn't exactly compatible with the "Getting Things Done" method of making a new item for everything that will take longer than a few minutes.

Comments

[dawn-guy.livejournal.com]

Morlock, denier of network services, is curious about this non-centralised DHCP service of which you speak. Locally tweaking something which probably can be run centrally (I am aware of network installs as an exception) strikes me in the bindi and makes my eyes go all crossly looking for the hammer.

[ckd]

Oracle Calendar might be convinced to talk to your phone if the SyncML support is turned on (and actually working; ours never got to that point, and I won't care in three more days). I don't know what (if anything) is used at the new place. I'm half-tempted to set up Darwin Calendar Server myself and just run that.

I haven't found a better way to use iCal or anything else with Oracle Calendar. Some of the other folks here have weird lash-ups that export from OCal and import into iCal that they run regularly, I think. Oracle is supposedly in on the CalDAV stuff, but it's not like they've actually shipped anything that uses it....

(This reminds me that I need to export my OCal upcoming events into an iCal-compatible file and mail it to myself so I have all my future appointments &c. Thanks!)

[kraig.livejournal.com]

Want one of my filing cabinets? I've been pondering ditching one.

[kraig.livejournal.com]

and what's incompatible in our RT, btw? I've not found anything better so far. :( Even RT3 is teh suck.

[sulle-stelle.livejournal.com]

DEFINITELY get the comfy chair. Who cares whether other people have one? It IS your office, after all. Why would it be "politically tricky?"

Your job sounds fun! Except for the fact that Oracle Calendar doesn't play nice with, well, anything else. Maybe the world is waiting for you to write the interface?....

(Sometimes I really miss all the geeky stuff I used to do......)

[driftingfocus.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, how does Spaces work with multiple monitors? Have you tested it?