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How to fix or reset sound in Ubuntu Linux

I usually play multimedia files which need sounds. But sometime a crashed multimedia application can cause the audio device not released properly. The effects vary, from repeating annoying sounds to no sound at all. If this happens, I usually restart the PC as restarting Alsa is not working.

Colorful shell prompt

Based on shell color tutorial, I've managed to create a library to make colorful shell easy to make. I also attach an example script which can be applied as PS1 variable.

Just download them and see the codes. You'll understand :D

To apply the script put both files into /opt directory and also put the following line into ~/.bashrc file.

. /opt/ps1

New apt-env

This is new apt environment script to download Debian packages in a sandbox. This is just a new improvement of Iang's script. The new features are:

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