Another Disposable Email Address Site

Have you ever needed an email .. NOW? Have you ever gone to a website that asks for your email for no reason (other than they are going to sell your email address to the highest bidder so you get spammed forever)?

Welcome to Mailinator(tm) – Its no signup, instant email. Here is how it works: You are on the web, at a party, or talking to your favorite insurance salesman. Whereever you are, someone (or some webpage) asks for your email. You know if you give it, you’ll be spammed. On the other hand, you do want at least one email from that person. The answer is to give them a mailinator address. You don’t need to sign-up. You just make it up on the spot. Pick [email protected] or [email protected] – pick anything you want (up to 15 characters before the @ sign).

Later, come to this site and check the email for that account. Its that easy. Mailinator accounts are created when mail arrives for them. No signup, no personal information, and when you’re done – you can walk away. The emails will automatically be deleted for you after a few hours.

http://www.mailinator.com

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User Profile Deletion Utility (Delprof.exe)

Delprof.exe is available in the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit. It is a command-line utility that you can use to delete user profiles on a local or remote computers running Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. User profiles can grow large and may take up considerable disk space, especially if there are several users using one computer. Because of this, you may want to use Delprof.exe to free disk space by deleting profiles that are no longer required. However, because each profile on the computer is presented in order when you run the utility, you may want to use the graphical interface instead of the command-line tool whenever possible.

Note: You must be logged on as administrator or as a member of the Administrators group to delete user profiles.

User Profile Deletion Utility (Delprof.exe)

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Beginners Guides: Spyware Protection and Removal

Fresh from penning our Firewall and Virus Alert article, PCStats would like to present the second part of our beginners guide to the less savoury aspects of the internet experience; dealing with the subject of “Spyware.” If you’ve installed a peer-to-peer sharing program such as ‘Kazaa Media Desktop’ or ‘Morpheus’, or accidentally said yes to a ‘Gator’ pop-up, or gone on an excursion to some of the darker corners of the Internet, chances are your PC has developed an internet life of its own through one or more spyware applications.

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1458&page=1

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Beginners Guides: Firewalls and Internet Security

When you use the Internet there are dangers around every corner. Viruses, malicious users, Trojan horses, Oh my! If these are just concepts to you, you are either lucky or well protected (or just un-connected). If these names trigger painful flashbacks to when your computer (and possibly your account balance) was rendered inoperable or compromised by one of the above, then join the club.

Either way, securing your computer against threats from the Internet is an essential step. If you do not, you will, at some point, regret it. Guaranteed.

This article is intended to provide some basic guidelines for securing your computer, and to give the reader a better understanding of how some of these technologies work. It is intended primarily for users of high-speed Internet connections, but most of the article is applicable to dial-up Internet users also.

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1450

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An Introduction to PHP

This article introduces you to PHP. You will learn how it came about, what it looks like, and why it is the best server-side technology. It also exposes the most important features of the language.

PHP began as a simple macro replacement tool. Like a nice pair of shoes, it got you where you needed to go, but you could go only so far. On the hyperspeed development track of the Internet, PHP has become the equivalent of a 1960s muscle car. It’s cheap, it’s fast, and there’s plenty of room under the hood for you and your virtual wrench.

This article lets you poke around the PHP engine, get your hands a little dirty, and take it for a spin. There are lots of small examples you can try immediately. Like all the examples in this article, you can easily adapt them to provide real solutions. Don’t be intimidated if you don’t fully understand the PHP code at first. Later articles deal with all the issues in detail.

http://www.webreference.com/programming/php/corephp/index.html?foo=An%20Introduction%20to%20PHP%2009-03

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