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I just found that there’s a new PPA available in launchpad, this new PPA is telepathy related. A PPA (Personal Package Archives) as you may already know it’s a service provided by launchpad to developers that simplifies software distribution for ubuntu distros. In the other hand Empathy might be the next IM client in the GNOME desktop, it was proposed for inclusion some time ago, but enoght talking, lets how easy is to install this great program.

Add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list

#telephaty ppa
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/telepathy/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/telepathy/ubuntu gutsy main

(You can do it from a terminal, wih something like this, sudo nano -w /etc/apt/sources.list)

Now update the repositories,

sudo apt-get update

And finally install Empathy,

sudo apt-get install empathy

And you are done, try out and report bugs!

Obviously the mandatory screenshot here and here

Sometime ago i was playing with powertop and as recomended by it, i ran the following command,

sudo hal-disable-polling --device /dev/scd0 'hal'

Yesterday i was trying to burn a cd and my box was having problems with the detection of the blank cds, and i was suspecting that it was related with this.

sudo hal-disable-polling --enable-polling --device /dev/scd0

The above line fixed the problem! And i was able to burn all my thesis files! (great no more thesis! yahoo!)
I will probably end up filling a bug in launchpad (nautilus ?) cause mounting of normal CD were working, but blank CDs were having problems while mounting.