An academic paper by Elizabeth Anne Roodhouse titled The voice from the base(ment): Stridency, referential structure, and partisan conformity in the political blogosphere analyzes six top political blogs and their coverage of Sarah Palin's candidacy for Vice President in 2008.

An interesting finding is:

A few days ago, I got a Toshiba Satellite A300-0F7 15.4" laptop, and proceeded to install Kubuntu Jaunty Jackelope (9.04) on it. I chose the 64-bit (amd64) version to install.

The following article highlights several areas that I struggled with, and solutions, where possible, in the hope that this would help someone.

To minimize the risks of returning the laptop to the store, I usually take a live CD of the operating system I intend to install, and test the demo unit there. This at least gives me an idea of what areas need work, vs. those that work out of the box.

The following is yet another form of the 419 advance fee fraud emails.

FROM THE DESK OF MANZOOR H. HANIM
LAW CHAMBERS LEGAL
SOLICITORS/PRIVATE LAW
312-345 JALAN AMPANG
KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA
PHONE: +60143695081

Attention:

The scammers are pretty brazen and try to convince others that their scams are true.

Here are some examples:

1. A scammer vouches for a scam that he promotes, for example: for the Email fraud: qualifying for the Cadbury Foundation cash aid, he adds a comment saying:

Name: James Arnold
Email: jame.ar@yahoo.com
IP Address: 41.220.75.16
Subject: They are true.

My Friend made his money from this same email, last year.

My friend Ralph Janke who is from Germany and lives here in Waterloo, pointed me to a very interesting project that he worked on.

The project is funded by the European Union, and therefore uses open source and open data formats.

Alphonse Mingana: Assyrian Orientalist

Here is another scam offering a job of "professional personal assistant" for a fictitious company.

From: Jond Donald
To:
Subject: J&C Electronics Pvt.Ltd

Good day,

We are glad to offer you a job position in our company [J&C Electronics Pvt.Ltd] As part of our Multi Level Marketing Network, we seek capable individuals to work for us as our International representative In Arab such as KUWAIT,UAE,QATAR AND SO ON.

This is one more scam

From: 556565@cadburyfoundation.uk.tt
To: 09cfqc741@cadburyfoundation.co.uk.tt
Subject: Cadbury Foundation Qualification code (09cfqc741)
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 08:37:08 -0500

CADBURY FOUNDATION

Government Buildings,
Otley Road,
Leeds
LS16 5PZ

Date: 07-07-09
Website: www.cadburyfoundation.co.uk.tt
Subject: Notification for Cash Aid

Dear Sir/Madam,

This is to notify you that you have been chosen By the Board of trustees of the Cadbury
Foundation based in the Ireland, as one of the recipients for 2009 Cash Aid for your own

The Drupal security team receives reports of all sorts all the time.

Some of them are false positives by security scanning software.

Today we got a report about a Trojan being detected in Drupal 6.10 and 6.13 by TrendMicro OfficeScan version 10, in the following files:

modules/color/color.install - BQDR_IRCBOT.BZQ
modules/profile/profile-wrapper.tpl.php - TROJ_SWIZZOR.KXV
modules/translation/translation.module - TROJ_FRAUDLO.LL

Here is another twist on fraud on the internet. This fraudster claims to be a private "consultant" and offers to refer you to a reputable firm.

Has all the markings of West African fraud: introduces himself as "Madam", has a last name of Smith, and uses a free web email address.

Loan Consultant(HELP THE WORLD FIGHT INTERNET FRAUDSTERS)

HELP THE WORLD FIGHT INTERNET FRAUDSTERS

Good day everybody,

My name is Madam Sandra Smith a private consultant.