Author Archives: dougaj4

Two new old live recordings

Posted on 19/06/2022 by dougaj4

Two recordings of live concerts recently found on You Tube: Sandy Denny singing Blackwaterside (BBC In Concert – Paris Theatre 16/3/72) : The Pentangle, three songs recorded in Australia in August 1972:

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Installing PyPardiso and speed of Scipy spsolve

Posted on 12/06/2022 by dougaj4

I recently upgraded to Python 3.10, and because of some problems with my previous installation I decided to do a complete new installation using pip, which required installation of all the libraries needed for my various programs. For my linear … Continue reading →

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Removing Add-ins

Posted on 05/06/2022 by dougaj4

Recently I had problems with an Excel Add-in that was still trying to run, and generating error messages, even after being removed from the add-in list and uninstalled. After much searching and trying suggested methods that didn’t work, I finally … Continue reading →

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Australian election results

Posted on 01/06/2022 by dougaj4

Australia now has a new government. Here’s what Billy Bragg thinks about it:

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Getting Excel Solver working

Posted on 21/05/2022 by dougaj4

Recently I found that for unknown reasons the Excel Solver add-in was not working. Opening the add-ins list from the Devloper tab showed that it had become deactivated (also accessible from File-Options-Add-ins): Clicking the Solver check box returned a message … Continue reading →

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