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Any tool in Ubuntu that helps me edit sound, channels, etc.. as close or advan......Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:26:05 -0400https://liberty.io/making-document-viewer-start-from-the-last-page.htmlhttps://liberty.io/making-document-viewer-start-from-the-last-page.htmlThe document viewer is I think the best for reading pdf files, but after I formatted my PC, it doesn't remember the last page I was on, how can I configure the default ubuntu document viewer to rem......Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:24:57 -0400https://liberty.io/how-to-play-snake-in-terminal.htmlhttps://liberty.io/how-to-play-snake-in-terminal.htmlToday I caught a teacher playing snake at his tty console. I know that he has Ubuntu. How does he made? I tried to play myself in my treminal by typing snake and it told me: The program 'snake' is ...Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:24:06 -0400https://liberty.io/few-day-old-dell-shuts-down-randomly-wondering-if-this-is-a-software-o.htmlhttps://liberty.io/few-day-old-dell-shuts-down-randomly-wondering-if-this-is-a-software-o.htmlI recently got a dell 15 5000 (7th gen i5, touchscreen) laptop and almost immediately switched to Ubuntu 16.04, and twice now ( 4 days later) I have shut the lid and left, and come back and opened ......Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:19:14 -0400https://liberty.io/why-won-039-t-my-ethernet-connection-and-wireless-conection-work-on-my.htmlhttps://liberty.io/why-won-039-t-my-ethernet-connection-and-wireless-conection-work-on-my.htmlI installed Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS today on 3 of my desktops and one of my laptops. Everything went fine up until i got to the Dell inspiron 1521 laptop. 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