Systems & Networking

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Bypassing Virtual Machine Detection on VMWare Workstation

Often times you may run across some nasty software that will refuse to run inside a virtual environment.  Usually malware is the biggest culprit here, but some legitimate programs may also refuse to install if a virtual machine environment is detected.  Fortunately VMware has created a work around to prevent software from detecting a virtual machine. 

How to Setup DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) with Postfix and Ubuntu Server

If your mail is always ending up in the "Junk" folder (Yahoo is well known for this), take a look at DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM). Your email server will sign every outgoing message with a cryptographic private key. Your DNS server is setup with TXT record in the email's domain that contains a matching public key. The receiving end will take the two keys, and determine if they are a match, thus authenticating your email server.

The implementation is very straight forward with Ubuntu Server.

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