How did Harry's watch work in Hogwarts as magic is supposed to render Muggle inventions like electricity and batteries incapable of normal functioning?
Classes and lessons at Hogwarts are presumably scheduled at fixed times of day. The first class might start, for example at nine in the morning.  To be on time for one's lessons, it is therefore crucial to know the current time but we know that electric watches of course do not work at Hogwarts because of all the magical interference. Are there magic watches? Is there maybe a spell to tell the time?  How do people at Hogwarts usually tell the time?
I want to update ubuntu 11.04 throught apt-get. So I added the following lines in apt.conf  export http_proxy=http://username:password@proxyserver.net:port/ export ftp_proxy=http://username:password@proxyserver.netport/  export http_proxy=http://deepak:Deepak@123@12.1.1.1:3128   My question is: how do I insert special characters to a username or password?  For instance: my password for proxy is Deepak@123 and it is getting an error. Regular expression for URL what is the difference between IBE and ABE schemes Can somebody explain in simple words. real life example light help and limitations of these schemes etc. "Dark L" is "L" at the end of the word or after a vowel sound. Example: ball, pull.  "Light L" is "L" at the beginning or before a vowel sound. Example: light, love.  There are 4 explanations of how to pronounce "dark L":   1st explanation: the tongue tip must contact the ridge right behind the upper teeth. 2nd explanation: before the tongue tip must contact the ridge right behind the upper teeth, you must curl the tongue and make sound like /r/ before make the /l/ as in the 1st explanation. 3rd explanation: just put the tongue between upper and lower teeth is enough to make the dark L 4th explanation: the tongue tip must contact the ridge right behind the upper teeth &amp; the back of the tongue raises up (a British teacher teaches that).   see this vid:  and  for more info  So what is the correct way to make the "dark L"? I am working on a SQL query that reads from a SQLServer database to produce an extract file. One of the  requirements to remove the leading zeroes from a particular field, which is a simple VARCHAR(10) field. So, for example, if the field contains '00001A', the SELECT statement needs to return the data as '1A'.  Is there a way in SQL to easily remove the leading zeroes in this way? I know there is an RTRIM function, but this seems only to remove spaces. I am having a problem with permissions on a Linux server. I am used to BSD. When a directory is owned by a group the user who owns it isn't in such as www-data, files created in it will be owned by that group. This is important because I want files to be readable by the webserver (which I will not run as root) but so a user can still put new files in the directory. I can't put the users in www-data because then they can read every other users websites.   I want the webserver to read all websites, I want users to be able to change their own.  The permissions are set like this on the folders at the moment....  drwxr-x--- 3 john www-data 4096 Feb 17 21:27 john   It is standard behavior on BSD for permissions to work this way. How do I get Linux to do this? New Graphics Card Preventing Boot Up How to plot and solve the numerical solution of a integro-differential equation How to evaluate the integral $$\int_{25\pi / 4}^{53\pi / 4}\frac{1}{(1+2^{\sin x})(1+2^{\cos x})}dx\ ?$$ 'An avalanche of mail'? - it should be 'mails', shouldn't it? I came across this example on WordWeb while going through the meaning of the word ''.     the program brought an avalanche of mail (Just like "a group of man men").   I'm quite sure it should be mails. Kindly confirm. Stack Exchange sites need a universal clock that is visible! Since the Stack Exchange sites run on one clock, and a clock that is not common to most of us (such as those of us in the US), can we display a clock with the site time (UTC) displayed somewhere on every page, such as at the bottom with the other text?  That way we are more aware of when the days turn over, and ecetera...  close votes, delete votes, flags, and normal votes would also benefit from this as well (thanks @Grace Note!)...    What do you guys think? yea or nay? thoughts? When I use the MouseUp event, I can get it to fire with a mouse right-click. But MouseLeftButtonUp won't fire with either click!  &lt;Button MouseLeftButtonUp="btnNewConfig_MouseUp"  Name="btnNewConfig"&gt;     &lt;StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal"&gt;         &lt;Image Source="Icons\new.ico" Height="24" Width="24" Margin="5"/&gt;         &lt;TextBlock VerticalAlignment="Center"&gt;New&lt;/TextBlock&gt;     &lt;/StackPanel&gt; &lt;/Button&gt;   I know this is most likely something simple. Thanks for the help! Detect when browser receives file download When should I begin publishing? Subdividing Causes Strange Edges / Issues on Shape How should I cite a website URL? How to understand "with" in the following sentence? Not every job will end up with a success.   What is the meaning of "with" here? Why not use other preposition?  Could native speakers please describe the scene of this sentence for me? Thx. prove that : $\cos x \cdot \cos(x-60^{\circ}) \cdot \cos(x+60^{\circ})= \frac14 \cos3x$ I should prove this trigonometric identity. I think I should get to this point : $\cos(3x) = 4\cos^3 x - 3\cos x $ But I don't have any idea how to do it (I tried solving $\cos(x+60^{\circ})\cos(x-60^{\circ})$ but I got nothing) Picture rotation Is there a way to quickly rotate a picture in the SE editor without saving it on disk and rotating it in some image tool and reuploading it?  E.g. consider the picture below, assume I would like to quickly rotate it 90 degrees and wanted to do it expressly in the editor without the drudgery of saving it on disk, is there a shortcut in the stack exchange &quot;markup language&quot;?  If this feature is not available, I would like to nominate it for implementation. Will the Windows 10 Free Upgrade stay in the Professional channel?