Why is the database screwed up again?

[Krill]

http://apolyton.net was just inaccessible for five minutes...

[Ming]

Good question... I've been having problems for the last 20 minutes or so.

[Locutus]

Because I was trying to get it do some real work for a change, rather than sit on its lazy arse and read the OT all day. Apparently it doesn't want to (I'll try again on a quieter hour)

[Cartimandua]

I always get depressed when Apolyton doesn't let me in. I was fighting for a long time to get in here just now.

[Krill]

Could you schedule it for around 11 BST Locutus? I'll not be around then, so that's the ideal time to start fixing this place up

[Solver]

No, Locutus, please continue. I also need to get some real work done and Apolyton being inaccessible helps greatly

[Cartimandua]

Sadly I have to agree with Solver, I have real work that I am supposed to be doing. Apolyton is just too tempting and too much of a distraction. So Locutus, you really should continue.

[Krill]

All you guys need is discipline. I've got work to do, and I'm doing it.

[Solver]

Yeah, it shows

[Krill]

*shrug* it's not like you can run a 5 minute calculation in anything less than 5 minutes, can you

[Locutus]

Much as I'm sure it would be useful for many of us to shut the site down for a couple of days so we all can get some work done, I'm worried what the withdrawal symptoms will do to us

[Solver]

Originally posted by Krill
*shrug* it's not like you can run a 5 minute calculation in anything less than 5 minutes, can you

What, you're using computers to do calculations? Some fancy-schmancy modern stuff like Mathematica or Matlab? Shame on you, students these days...

Back in my days we did it all by hand, you could learn calculus in less time than it took a computer to integrate a function!

[Heraclitus]

Well I might get actually get the report on my project done.

[Krill]

Originally posted by Solver


What, you're using computers to do calculations? Some fancy-schmancy modern stuff like Mathematica or Matlab? Shame on you, students these days...

Back in my days we did it all by hand, you could learn calculus in less time than it took a computer to integrate a function!

Nope, no coding at all, all I have to do is draw molecules in a program and it works out the rest for me.

I don't have to even think!

[Krill]

(actually, the stuff I'm doing now I've just spent a grand total of 8 hours doing over two days because a stupid NMR spectrum took me four hours to simulate it was that complicated, now I'm just running calculations to check out that molecule for specific stuff which is the easy part).