Empathy is an instant messaging application for the GNOME Desktop. It supports text, voice & video chat, and file transfers and most used messaging systems such as MSN and Google Talk. Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala comes with Empathy as a default instant messaging client.
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How to restore notifications Position in Ubuntu 9.10 as they did in Ubuntu 9.04
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One of the changes Ubuntu 9.10 made from 9.04 was the placement of “asynchronous” farther down the right side of the screen.The problem a lot of users have with this is that it leaves a big space between the top of the screen and notifications.
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Are your graphics dead in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)? This hack might help
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If you just want to fix your computer, and by chance you are having the same problem as I, try this quick fix. It worked for me: The problem is with kernel mode setting, which is causing X to die.
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Lesser Known, But Very Helpful Features in OpenOffice.org Writer
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Anyone using Linux (or any operating system for that matter) should know about the OpenOffice.org office suite. But when you really start getting down to business, you will find there are features tucked away in this software that you may not have known existed.
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The Perfect Server - Ubuntu Karmic Koala (Ubuntu 9.10) [ISPConfig 2]
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This tutorial shows how to set up an Ubuntu Karmic Koala (Ubuntu 9.10) server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Courier POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.
Read more »Gain Space By Removing The Maximized Windows Titlebar [Linux w/ Compiz or Maximus]
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If you ever used Google Chrome - and you must have -, then you might have noticed how much vertical space you can gain by removing the window title bar. Yes Google Chrome has a titlebar, but as an extent of the tabs, so that's not conventional titlebar.
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Introduction to Nmap
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Nmap (“Network Mapper”) is an open source tool for network scanning and security auditing. This intro gives you some basic and interesting Nmap usages with examples on a GNU/Linux system.
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KDE 4.3.3 Out Now: Clockwork
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KDE Community Ships Third Translation and Service Release of the 4.3 Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates
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Geotagging Photos with digiKam
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Scribbles and Snaps: "Even if your camera doesn’t support geotagging, you can easily add geographical coordinates to your photos using digiKam."
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Howto install eee-control in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
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eee-control is an easy-to-use utility for controlling Eee PC hardware under Linux. It can toggle hardware (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) on and off, lets you configure all hardware hotkeys, enables aggressive powersaving, and more.
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GNOME 3.0 May Not Come Until September 2010
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Back in July of 2008 we learned of GNOME 3.0 as plans were laid out during the GUADEC '08 conference to make the GNOME 2.30 release their "3.0" version in March of 2010. However, it looks like GNOME 3.0 may not hit in H1'2010 but rather September of next year.
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Previewing Gnome Shell in Ubuntu
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If all goes according to plan, Ubuntu 10.10 will sport Gnome 3, which represents a radical overhaul of Ubuntu's default graphical user interface in the form of Gnome Shell, when it debuts a year from now. In order get a taste of what this desktop of the future will look like, I've spent the last few days using the development version. Here's what I've found.
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New release of Mozilla Lightning and SOGo
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The Inverse Team [External] is pleased to announce the immediate availability of SOGo 1.1.0. This is a major release of SOGo which focuses on new features, improved stability and which includes many bug fixes ad several small enhancements over previous versions.
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Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 doesn't know about:me, but it's fast
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The first official Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Beta release is now available, bringing with it a whole bunch of improvements to the open source web browser. It's also (to my naked eye) missing a few features that I had initially expected to see in Firefox 3.6.
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How to restore Grub boot loader after installing Windows
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This tutorial will explain how to restore Grub after installing Windows 7/Vista/Xp.If you are using dual boot PC with windows,Ubuntu for some reason you reinstall your windows now you may not see your grub 2 is loading because your windows installation might have been over written MBR (Master boot record).
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