Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2012 June 10

in that section of the driver panel, it has these various icons on the top of it, there is this power one, with a chord plug pictured on it, wHAT DOES IT MEAN?? IT shows zero on mine, im just curious as to what its for — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.35.15.169 (talk) 09:58, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

:It appears to be a tool to boost performance of the GPU by overclocking it. 77.97.198.48 (talk) 11:46, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

A friend sent me a file (a short list of books) that she made in OpenOffice (.odt). I opened it in LibreOffice and saved it as Text (.txt), then opened the textfile in vi. As I manipulate it (experimentally sorting by different words), junk keeps appearing at the beginning of one line, looking like this:



I delete the junk and sort again, and it reappears on another line. Any idea what's going on? —Tamfang (talk) 15:49, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

:At some point, something is adding the UTF-8 byte order mark to indicate the text encoding is Unicode UTF-8. At a later point, something else is interpreting the text with encoding ISO/IEC 8859-1, causing the UTF-8 byte order mark to appear as . --Bavi H (talk) 16:09, 10 June 2012 (UTC)