Multicolumn overrides desired table alignment
How to space columns evenly in a table with multicolumns?
Change all file type associations from one program to another In the beginning of the series, it's mentioned that Muggle-born wizards/witches are identified due to inadvertent spell-casting. However, it seems like later in the book, disarmed wizards/witches are completely helpless.   What is the explanation for why some spells can be cast without a wand and is there an in-universe explanation for why this isn't done? Also, are there spells that can be cast non-verbally (with/without a wand)? Change audio output depending on which one is on I have a PC that is hooked up to my HDTV (via a long hdmi cable) and to a monitor, which is in another room. I have speakers directly plugged to the PC audio out. The PC is next to the monitor and speakers.   I am not sure but I think Windows can play sound on only 1 audio device at a time. And I can only set 1 device as the default output. I can get sound on the TV or speaker depending on which device I set to default. But I would have to do this every time I switch between using my TV or my monitor!   Is there some way to configure such that sound plays through the TV if the TV is on, else it plays in the speakers? If this is not possible, then the next best alternative would be to get the sound to play on both the devices at the same time. Wikipedia introduces the vector product for two vectors $\vec a$ and  $\vec b$ as $$ \vec a \times\vec b=(\| \vec a\| \|\vec b\|\sin\Theta)\vec n $$ It then mentions that $\vec n$ is the vector normal to the plane made by $\vec a$ and  $\vec b$, implying that $\vec a$ and  $\vec b$ are 3D vectors. Wikipedia mentions something about a 7D cross product, but I'm not going to pretend I understand that.  My idea, which remains unconfirmed with any source, is that a cross product can be thought of a vector which is orthogonal to all vectors which you are crossing.  If, and that's a big IF, this is right over all dimensions, we know that for a set of $n-1$ $n$-dimensional vectors, there exists a vector which is orthogonal to all of them.  The magnitude would have something to do with the area/volume/hypervolume/etc. made by the vectors we are crossing.  Am I right to guess that this multidimensional aspect of cross vectors exists or is that last part utter rubbish? From the :  [1,4,9].map(Math.sqrt)   will yield:  [1,2,3]   Why then does this:  ['1','2','3'].map(parseInt)   yield this:  [1, NaN, NaN]   I have tested in Firefox 3.0.1 and Chrome 0.3 and just as a disclaimer, I know this is not cross-browser functionality (no IE).  I found out that the following will accomplish the desired effect. However, it still doesn’t explain the errant behavior of parseInt.  ['1','2','3'].map(function(i){return +i;}) // returns [1,2,3] How to change default window background color in Windows 10? In Windows 7 and Windows XP it was very easy to change the default background color of all windows to whatever you want. Staring at white window backgrounds all day is hard on the eyes. Once changed, ALL windows of all apps would conform to the custom color as long as the apps allowed the windows bg to be invoked. So for example it worked great in Notepad and many other apps.   Then the geniuses at M$ decided that this feature was no longer needed in Windows 8, and removed it. There were some reg hacks, but nothing standard. I remember reading that the feature would be coming back in Windows 10, but I'm not finding this to be the case. The only [partial/broken] way I have found to be able to do this is to tweak the following registry keys:  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors] "Window"="227 221 191"  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\Colors] "Window"="227 221 191"   When I changed those keys to my chosen soothing color and rebooted, it worked ONE TIME. After every reboot thereafter, all the white backgrounds are back AND YET those registry keys still have my custom RGB codes. I really hate Microsoft right now, but that aside, is there any solid way to change windows 10 bg colors and make it stick?  Important: In Settings -> Personalization -> Colors, none of that changes windows backgrounds. Already tried.   I am using Windows 10 Enterprise Version 1511 Build 10586.3.  UPDATE: I rebooted again and the bg colors work correctly...but later in the day all the window bgcolors were back to white again. Windows 8.1 had the exact same bug. My conclusion is that the reg hack "works" but only intermittently. Is this simply a MS bug? Or is there a better answer/solution? If I want to add more RAM to my computer, how can I buy something compatible? What kinds are there? How do I determine which kind my computer will accept and how much I can add? The Problem  Currently if I flag a post, I cannot check the status of the flag unless I have prior helpful flags. This means, for example, that a new user who wants to check the status of his first flag cannot do so while it is pending (active).  This feature request is based on my experience on MSO, where I wanted to check the status of my flag but could not get to the summary page without cheating (tweaking my SO link to work with MSO). It also stems from this question, where the OP indicates he had the same issue:   My Proposal  If I have flagged any post, then show me a "flags" link (red arrow in image below). If I have any helpful flags, then the number of helpful flags should be displayed (blue arrow). If I have not flagged anything, then neither should be displayed (as with current site functionality). How do I change the default wifi network that Ubuntu connects to on startup? There is an unsecured public wifi network in my range, as well as my own home WPA secured wifi that I want to use by default. However, on startup Ubuntu always connects to the unsecured one. Sometimes I forget to reconnect to the other one, which is very dangerous.   I am running a default setup of Ubuntu Destkop 11.10 with Gnome 3. I have looked under network settings but I can't find a 'default' option. Standard purpose of favorites I am wondering if my behavior regarding favorites is typical.  More importantly, if it isn't typical, does my behavior conflict with an internal metric designed to reward favorite'd questions?  I mark a question as a favorite for a few reasons:  A -- I find the question/answer(s) remarkable enough that coming back to them time and time again is of benefit to me.  B -- I am waiting to see if a sub-par quality question is going to be revised enough for me to come back and answer it.  Either way, I eventually remove my favorite.  C -- I have answered a question (of any quality) and am wanting to be notified of any competing answers.    Situations B and C are the most common for me and they typically mean I will go back and remove my favorite star later; I don't remove it because the quality of the question degraded, I merely don't want to be notified any longer.  Even stranger, I am often favoriting questions that are rather low-quality (reason B) making me wonder if low-quality posts are being rewarded via some invisible metric because I (at least temporarily) have given it what looks like a stamp of approval akin to an up-vote.    I suppose the feature being called "Favorite" makes me confused because most of the questions I select are not my favorite.  Am I accidentally messing with an invisible metric that is drawing attention to posts when that isn't desired behavior? Often, crontab scripts are not executed on schedule or as expected. There are numerous reasons for that:   wrong crontab notation permissions problem environment variables   This community wiki aims to aggregate the top reasons for crontab scripts not being executed as expected. Write each reason in a separate answer.  Please include one reason per answer - details about why it's not executed - and fix(es) for that one reason.  Please write only cron-specific issues, e.g. commands that execute as expected from the shell but execute erroneously by cron. How to append to a file with fstream fstream::app flag seems not to work I am trying to add jQuery to my page (it is not being added by default). The file is adding to the page but after drupal.js causing the error:  SCRIPT5009: 'jQuery' is undefined  drupal.js, line 5 character 1    The code that adds drupal.js to the page in common.inc  ... 'misc/drupal.js' =&gt; array(           'data' =&gt; 'misc/drupal.js',           'type' =&gt; 'file',           'scope' =&gt; 'header',           'group' =&gt; JS_LIBRARY,           'every_page' =&gt; TRUE,           'weight' =&gt; -1,           'preprocess' =&gt; TRUE,           'cache' =&gt; TRUE,           'defer' =&gt; FALSE,         ), ...   In my module hook_init I have:    drupal_add_js('misc/jquery.js', array(     'group' =&gt; JS_LIBRARY,     'weight' =&gt; -20,     'cache' =&gt; TRUE,   ));   I would think with a lower weight it would load before drupal.js?  The header of the page contains the following scripts:  &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://mysite.com/misc/drupal.js?mqdxrf"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://mysite.com/misc/jquery.js?mqdxrf"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://mysite.com/misc/jquery.once.js?mqdxrf"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://mysite.com/sites/default/files/languages/nl_c9aC92_wtuULa79-hTFcGPM53oqk1yKwciOa_Q3yO28.js?mqdxrf"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://mysite.com/sites/all/modules/lang_dropdown/msdropdown/jquery.dd.js?mqdxrf"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://mysite.com/sites/all/modules/lang_dropdown/lang_dropdown.js?mqdxrf"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://mysite.com/sites/all/modules/devel/devel_krumo_path.js?mqdxrf"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; Is there a rule to understand how the group "Cha" has to be pronounced?  "Character" sounds with a hard first syllable, while "Charm" sound softer, but I don't find how to tell which sound to use before earing someone saying the word. It could be because of the double consonant "rm" vs "ra"? Or is it just a matter of knowing the rule for every single word?  EDIT: More specifically, let's talk about UK English pronunciation. For a given class I would like to have tracing functionality i.e. I would like to log every method call (method signature and actual parameter values) and every method exit (just the method signature).      How do I accomplish this assuming that:     I don't want to use any 3rd party AOP libraries for C#, I don't want to add duplicate code to all the methods that I want to trace,   I don't want to change the public API of the class - users of the class should be able to call all the methods in exactly the same way.     To make the question more concrete let's assume there are 3 classes:     public class Caller   {      public static void Call()       {          Traced traced = new Traced();          traced.Method1();          traced.Method2();       }  }   public class Traced   {      public void Method1(String name, Int32 value) { }       public void Method2(Object object) { }  }   public class Logger  {      public static void LogStart(MethodInfo method, Object[] parameterValues);       public static void LogEnd(MethodInfo method);  }   How do I invoke Logger.LogStart and Logger.LogEnd for every call to Method1 and Method2 without modifying the Caller.Call method and without adding the calls explicitly to Traced.Method1 and Traced.Method2?  Edit:  What would be the solution if I'm allowed to slightly change the Call method? What does the "static" modifier after "import" mean? Unable to start XAMPP using sudo in Desktop Entry Get list of all tables in Oracle? One page website - Effect on SEO I'm considering re-designing my personal website to promote my web services in my local area.  My issue is whether to do a one page website with a scroll-to navigation system. What effect does this have on SEO. As i understand it, you set stuff like h1's and meta description on specific page content. How does this work when all of your different content is on one page? Oracle 11g: increasing buffer cache with AMM On a 2-node RAC we have enabled Automatic Memory Management. The advisor views indicate that increasing the buffer cache by 4 GB will half the physical reads, and we have 4 GB to give.   How must we do this? By increasing memory_target and letting Oracle grab more memory for the buffer cache? Or by explicitly setting a value for db_cache_size (which now is zero)?