The ASUS Eee 1008HA is the latest in the popular line of ‘netbooks’ that are reportedly taking over the world, or at least the consumer electronics portion thereof. We picked one up from Amazon for about $419 as a way to keep in touch during summer travels (because, really, what good is a vacation if you can’t have a daily internet fix), and keep our darling 2-year-old entertained with some pre-recorded digital media during a 5-hour plane trip.
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Somewhere, there are people who had to sit through this being shown on a giant screen at a sales meeting, and resisted the urge to gouge out their own eyes with a spork. My compassion for humanity reaches new highs.

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This howto will show you how to setup an SSL certificate on a Plesk server so that it will be used when people connect through secure pop, smtp and imap.

To do the following, you need a certificate. It can be self signed or CA signed. Using a self-signed cert will of course result in some browser warnings for those who have not added the certificate as locally trusted on their computer.

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