Failure

I hate Gantt charts. Not a single program I've found will actually let me do resource balancing. So I resolve to try Microsoft Project, which I think does have it, and allows task splitting etc.

Now, bear in mind I have a legitimate license for Project Professional 2003.

• The downloader I have for it only works on the campus network, on Windows machines. Whatever happened to ISOs?
• The campus VPN requires prior registration. I can't even borrow my supervisor's, because he's in Spain.
• I can remotely log-in to the University network, but the Unix machines can't access Samba filesystems. I can actually SFTP to the machine holding the ISOs, but it appears to be empty (only exported through SMB).
• Tunnelling doesn't work

Short of getting in my car and driving in, I can't get them from the University. BitTorrent is also letting me down — very frustrating, given that I'm actually legally allowed to use the software!

Who would have thought it would be so difficult to get a proper Gantt chart done without just drawing it by hand? I've been tempted a number of times to write my own software in a couple of hours, but I know it's not a real solution.

Drat!

I will have to resort to trying to use Project to do the whole thing tomorrow morning.

Posted at 2004-02-24 08:38:56 by Richard • Link to Failure
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Monstrous Amazon purchase

Hear my wallet roar! Two Led Zeppelin CDs for Anthony, and for me: Led Zeppelin I, IV, and Physical Graffiti; Grosse Pointe Blank and Virgin Suicides on DVD; Afterglow; and Lucifer Book 2. Over £76 in one go.

Gantt charts, how I hate thee.

Posted at 2004-02-24 04:13:20 by Richard • Link to Monstrous Amazon p…
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