Unix admin tried to axe power grid
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Lonnie Denison faces five years in prison and a $250,000 fine after admitting to breaking a glass cover and hitting the emergency "off" switch in a state data center.
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IBM is beefing up both its System p and Power-based Unix systems and its i Servers, once dubbed AS/400. Now, Linux-based binaries created for x86-based PC environments will be able to run unmodified on IBM Unix servers.
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By Mark Harrington, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  May 25--A State Supreme Court judge in Riverhead has nullified an environmental approval for the Caithness Long Island power plant in Yaphank, saying the Brookhaven Town board's re-vote on the matter failed to follow proper procedures.
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Four years after filing suit against the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Cos., Shell service station owners in Massachusetts went before a US District Court judge in Boston yesterday, charging that Shell took several measures in the late 1990s to drive them out of business.
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BERLIN, Jul 10 (IPS) - A series of technical breakdowns in two of the  oldest nuclear power stations in Germany has led to renewed  demands to phase out nuclear energy.
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Back in February, Ralph Green asked me to speak at the North Texas Linux Users' Group. I discussed Linux administration and then took questions. Some one in the audience asked me about Mono. I gave a cavalier answer having a bias against it. Then someone else in the audience said that I needed to get my facts straight.
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Power supply firm National Grid could face fines of up to Â£12m for major power cuts, watchdog Ofgem says.
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US authorities issued a court order on October 7 to Rackspace to physically remove Global Indymedia servers in the US and UK. The agency requesting the seizure was the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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A major metropolitan police department demeans the current IT staff and brings in a hot-shot contractor to install and run a network, but guess who saves the day in an emergency?
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Two environmental outfits, Western Resource Advocates and Environmental Defense, have issued a study called "Climate Alert: Cleaner Energy for the Southwest." Predictably, the groups oppose the construction of a planned new $3.8 billion, 1,500-megawatt coal-fired electric plant near Ely.
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RIMBEY, Alta. (CP) - About 40 demonstrators taped their mouths shut to protest a decision to close hearings to the public on a massive proposed power line to be built between Edmonton and Calgary.
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The glory days of municipal Wi-Fi have dimmed for Tempe, Ariz. CIO Dave Heck, who now is trying get the network operator to restore service after shutting it down in December. Otherwise, the city will seize the network assets.
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A government video shows the potential destruction caused by hackers seizing control of a crucial part of the U.S. electrical grid
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A vendor is pushing products designed to let admins manage whole infrastructures from a Windows computer. By Larry Greenemeier. In a bid to help systems administrators extend their Windows-management tools
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This user has been known to install software that crashes workstations and delete shared network directories -- and he's been blasted by IT support people. But this pilot fish wants to change that.
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By PATRICK CONDON MINNETONKA, Minn. - When officials in this Minneapolis suburb didn't like the two eye-popping digital billboards that Clear Channel erected along the freeway, they pulled the plug. They had the power company cut off the electricity.
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A power shutdown was instigated by the E.U., but it has only added to the antagonism toward Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas