The first thing that needs to be done is obtaining digital certificate. Thawte’s personal digital certificate can be obtained here. After registration and verification, you can create your own certificate. The default options will allow both digital signing and encryption. Thawte also allows you to create multiple certificate for multiple accounts. Download, import and usage instructions available after the jump.

If you’re using Firefox, the certificate will be imported into the browser. You need to export them as a file then re-import them to your e-mail client of choice. To export the certificate from Firefox:

1. Click Tools -> Options -> Advanced
2. Click on View Certificates
3. Select the Certificate
4. Click Backup

Now that you have downloaded the certificate you can now import it into your mail client. You will be asked to password protect the certificate. Remember the password that will be used to import the certificate to the mail client. IMPORTANT: Do NOT send your certificate since it contains your private key for decrypting your e-mails. For more info on digital signing and encryption click here.

Importing to Thunderbird

1. Right click the account that is listed in the certificate and click Properties
2. Click the corresponding Security section
3. Click View Certificates
4. Click Import
5. Point to the certificate downloaded from Firefox then click OK
6. You will be asked to create password for “Security Devices” and the password to import the certificate
7. Under the section “Digital Signing” click select
8. Choose the certificate and click OK
9. Thunderbird will ask if you want to use the same certificate for encryption. Click Ok
10. Check “Digitally sign messages (by default)” then click Ok

Sending Signed/Encrypted E-mail withThunderbird

• Signing
  • If you choose to sign by default as written in the guide, you don’t have to do anything
  • If not, when writing a new message click on the downward triangle next to the “Security” (padlock icon) then choose “Digitally Sign This Message”
• Encrypting
  • You have to receive an e-mail with the person’s digital signature
  • When writing a new message click on the downward triangle next to the “Security” (padlock icon) then choose “Encrypt This Message”
  • If you have not received any e-mail with the person’s digital signature, you won’t be able to encrypt the e-mail and an error message will be generated

Importing to Microsoft Outlook

1. Click Tools -> Options -> Security
2. Click Import/Export
3. Select “Import existing Digital ID from a file” then click “Browse…”
4. Point to the certificate file exported from Firefox
5. Fill in the password at the text field and give a name for this particular certificate
6. Click OK
7. On the same “Security” tab, click on “Settings…”
8. Click on “Choose” for both signing and encryption certificate and choose the certificate you’ve just imported
9. Check “Send these certificates with signed message”
10. Click Ok
11. On the “Security” tab, also check the “Add digital signature to outgoing messages”
12. Also check “Send clear text signed message when sending signed messages”
13. Click ok

Sending Signed/Encrypted E-mail with Outlook

• Signing
  • If you set it to send digital signature by default, all outgoing email will be automatically signed
  • If not, when writing a new message click on Options -> Security Settings and check “Add digital signature to this message” and “Send this text message as clear text signed”
  • Alternatively, when writing a new message click on the envelope icon with the red and gold ribbon
• Encrypting
  • To send encrypted e-mail you have to receive an e-mail from that person with his/her digital signature
  • After you receive an email with the person’s digital signature, right click the name and choose “Add to Outlook Contacts”. This will import the person’s certificate that’s needed to send out encrypted information to that person.
  • If you have not received any e-mail with the person’s digital signature and add the certificate to the contact, you won’t be able to encrypt the e-mail and an error message will be generated
  • When writing a new message click on Options -> Security Settings and check “Add digital signature to this message”, “Send this text message as clear text signed” and “Encrypt message contents and attachments”
  • Alternatively, when writing a new message click on the envelope icon with the blue padlock on the toolbar
  • NOTE: In order to encrypt properly, the recipient should be added by click the “To:” button and choosing the contact from the address book

As a start, put in the CD, choose the CD installer from rEFIt then follow the instructions below:

1. Proceed with the installation regularly until the HDD partitioning portion
2. Choose to install on /dev/sda3 and format as “reiserfs” with mount point “/”
3. After disk is formated, go to shell by pressing “Ctrl+Alt+F2″
4. Run the following commands:

   mkdir /mnt/ubuntu
   mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/ubuntu
   dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/ubuntu/swap bs=1024 count=2097152
   swapon /mnt/ubuntu/swap

5. When asked for screen resolution, only press spacebar on 1440×900 or lower
6. Continue until GRUB installation fails. Ignore the failure and install LILO when prompted.
7. Installation should complete and you should be able to boot into Ubuntu, without X Windows.
8. Login the run the following commands:

   sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-$(uname -r) linux-kernel-headers
   sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

   NOTE: If you don’t know your kernel version number, run the command

   echo $(uname -r)

9. Reboot then run the following commands:

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
   sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx
   sudo depmod -a
   sudo aticonfig --initial
   sudo aticonfig --overlay-type=Xv
   /etc/init.d/gdm restart

10. If you don’t hear a login sound, it means your speaker might not be enabled

Troubleshooting

1. Some warning popup because there is no swap partition / swapon doesn’t work
   Ignore it and it will work just fine
2. There are no sound coming from speaker, but sound is coming from the headphone jack
   run the command

   alsamixer

   from the terminal and un-mute the speaker. This is done by using the arrow keys to reach the Speakers and press M.

3. If rEFIt suddenly becomes disabled and not working, boot into OS X and reinstalls it

Extra Step to Enhance Linux-Macbook Pro

This section will discuss issues like GLX on MBP, Wireless drivers, etc, to make Linux on MBP experience seems more natural.

Installing Wifi Driver

1. sudo apt-get update
2. sudo apt-get install build-essential
3. sudo apt-get install module-assistant
4. m-a prepare
5. sudo apt-get install subversion
6. svn checkout http://svn.madwifi.org/trunk madwifi
7. cd madwifi
8. make clean
9. make
10. sudo make install
11. sudo modprobe ath_pci

Enabling Fn F-Key Combo

• Run from terminal:

  sudo apt-get install pommed

• To enforce using hardware key only with Fn key combination, modify /etc/pommed.conf from fnmode = 1 to fnmode = 2
• Restart pommed by running the command:

  /etc/init.d/pommed restart

Fix Suspend Issue

• Open /etc/default/acpi-support using text editor then set: POST_VIDEO=false

Fix iSight Issue

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sudo modprobe -r uvcvideo
sudo mv /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/ubuntu/media/usbvideo/uvcvideo.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/ubuntu/media/usbvideo/uvcvideo.ko.original
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libusb-0.1-4 libusb-dev linux-headers-$(uname -r)
wget http://files.i-nz.net/projects/linux-kernel/isight/uvcvideo-isight.tar.gz
tar -xzvf uvcvideo-isight.tar.gz
cd against-revision-100
sudo make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe uvcvideo

Enable XGL

1. sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl

2. sudo echo 'Xgl :1 -fullscreen -ac -accel xv:pbuffer -accel glx:pbuffer &
   DISPLAY=:1
   cookie="$(xauth -i nextract - :0 | cut -d ' ' -f 9)"
   xauth -i add :1 . "$cookie"
   exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session' > /usr/bin/startxgl

3. sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/startxgl

4. sudo echo '[Desktop Entry]
   Encoding=UTF-8
   Name=Xgl
   Comment=Start an Xgl Session
   Exec=/usr/bin/startxgl
   Icon=
   Type=Application' > /usr/share/xsessions/xgl.desktop

Two Finger Scroll Touchpad and More
This is my current xorg.conf setting for my touchpad. Sensitivity is set to medium and two finger scroll is working. Right click is emulated by using three-fingers-tap

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver          "synaptics"
Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
Option          "Device"        "/dev/psaux"
Option          "Protocol"      "auto-dev"
Option "LeftEdge" "150"
Option "RightEdge" "1070"
Option "TopEdge" "100"
Option "BottomEdge" "310"
Option "FingerLow" "17"
Option "FingerHigh" "22"
Option "MaxTapTime" "120"
Option "MaxTapMove" "220"
Option "MaxDoubleTapTime" "180"
Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
Option "VertEdgeScroll" "0"
Option "TapButton1" "1"
Option "TapButton2" "2"
Option "TapButton3" "3"
Option "LockedDrags" "off"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "1"
Option "MinSpeed" "1.10"
Option "MaxSpeed" "1.30"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.08"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection

Installing Compiz-Fusion

• Add the following repositories:

  deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb feisty eyecandy-amd64
  deb-src http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb feisty eyecandy-amd64

• Add the following key:

  sudo wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb/DD800CD9.gpg  -O- | sudo apt-key add -

• Run the following at terminal:

  sudo apt-get install compiz compiz-gnome compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion-plugins-extra libcompizconfig-backend-gconf beryl-manager

• Run the command:

  beryl-manager

• Right click the “diamond” icon on the system tray and set “Rendering Path” to “Copy”
• Test Compiz-Fusion by running the following command:

  compiz --replace&

• If everything is good, you can remove beryl-manager by issuing the command

  sudo apt-get --purge remove beryl-manager

• And once everything is perfect, you can add the following entries to System -> Preferences -> Sessions
  Name: Compiz Fusion
Command: compiz --replace -c emerald
  and
  Name: Emerald
Command: emerald --replace

Caps Lock Light and Num Lock Key Failuer
Run the command:

sudo apt-get remove mouseemu

Sources:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MacBookProFeisty

http://allostalk.com/showthread.php?p=2787472

ISP end
assuming the class C is 216.237.21.0/24 and the subnet you own is 216.237.21.64/26):
21.237.216.in-addr.arpa [SOA Entries]
21.237.216.in-addr.arpa [NS Servers]

;someone else's entry
$GENERATE 128-255 $ IN PTR 216-237-21-$.orng.nextweb.net.
Client Side
Create the following zone “64-255.21.237.216.in-addr.arpa” with the following entry:

$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA [SOA Entries]
@ IN NS [NS Servers]
65 IN PTR gateway.mydomain.net.
66 IN PTR mail.mydomain.net.
67 IN PTR dns.mydomain.net.

$GENERATE 68-126 $ IN PTR $.dhcp.mydomain.net.
Short explanation of $GENERATE:
$GENERATE 68-70 $ IN PTR $.dhcp.mydomain.net.
is equivalent to:
68 IN PTR 68.dhcp.mydomain.net.
69 IN PTR 69.dhcp.mydomain.net.
70 IN PTR 70.dhcp.mydomain.net.

Therefore I try another plugin called NextGEN Gallery. Everything works great except for the slideshow. Once again I’m stumped on what’s the problem.
When I look at the HTML code, the slideshow code is trying to read a file called “nggextractXML.php”. I try to type in the URL and gets a 404 message. I thought that it was a bug, but I found out that on the server it was listed as “nggextractxml.php”. I download the file to a Windows machine and unzip it using WinRAR. The file name is correct with the upper case.

At that moment, I realized that the problem lies with 1and1.com unzip utility. I have been using the “unzip” command from the CLI and it has always been extracting using the -C option. To solve this I create a “.bash_profile” file under my home directory and added the following line:

alias unzip='/usr/bin/unzip'

If you’re having the same problem as I do, you can either create the file by using the instruction above or run the following command from the SSH:

echo "alias unzip='/usr/bin/unzip'" >> ~/.bash_profile

Or, you could just also download, unzip and upload the Bash Profile

1. Download Putty and Run
2. Type in the IP of Linux box or other SSH server you have access to and make sure the port is correct too
3. Under the tab “Connection –> SSH –> Tunnel” set a local source port *preferrably random number above 1024*
4. Under destination choose “Dynamic” and “Auto“
5. Then click open
6. Open IE or Firefox and find the proxy configuartion
7. Set your localhost as the SOCKS proxy server and the port is the local source port you choose on Step 3
   NOTE: On Firefox choose SOCKS v5, and on IE include “localhost, 127.0.0.1″ as the addresses exempted by the proxy

That’s all needs to be done.

UPDATE:
For those who wants to use it with IM services like MSN, here’s what you need to do:

1. Goto Tools -> Options -> Connection
2. Click on Advanced Settings
3. On SOCKS type 127.0.0.1 and click Test