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Removing SecuROM

System Administration
09/26/2008

SecuROM has been in the press a lot recently, due to it being installed surreptitiously by Spore, the new game from Electronic Arts. A class action lawsuit has been filed against Electronic Arts claiming that Spore installs SecuROM on the affected system and that SecuROM can't be removed without reformatting or replacing "the drive". I think that's going a little overboard. In this article, I'm going to tell you how to remove SecuROM from your system.

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DNS problems affecting e-mail delivery: SPF Records

System Administration
09/19/2008

Having outgoing e-mail rejected due to domain name system configuration issues is a common problem that Internet e-mail server administrators face. There are eight things you can check to make sure that your DNS is configured for optimum delivery. I will be covering a different item in each day of this series.

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DNS problems affecting e-mail delivery: sender domain

System Administration
05/16/2008

Having outgoing e-mail rejected due to domain name system configuration issues is a common problem that Internet e-mail server administrators face. There are eight things you can check to make sure that you’re DNS is configured for optimum delivery. I will be covering a different item in each day of this series.

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