Entries by Bob Martens

Status Update: Moodle Undergoing Maintenance

The MLC Moodle instance is currently undergoing maintenance this morning. There will be stretches of time when you will not be able to access Moodle. Another message will be sent out once the maintenance period is complete. Thanks! Posted from: http://status.mlc-wels.edu/post/144650011589

Status Update: Site Slowness After Call Service

Due to the increased traffic for the assignment list after the May 2016 Call Service, the site is having some slowness issues. We anticipate that the website will speed up as traffic is alleviated over the day. The best bet to getting the May 2016 Candidate Assignment list is via http://mlc-wels.edu/static/may-2016.pdf. We are sorry for […]

Status Update: Archive Server Maintenance

The Archive server is currently being worked on a requires many restarts. If you are logged into the campus network, you will receive messages about a restart of the Archive server. You can safely ignore these at the moment. Thanks you. Posted from: http://status.mlc-wels.edu/post/142068375554

Social Engineering Red Flags

You might start by asking “what is social engineering?” Social Engineering is the art of manipulating, influencing, or deceiving you in order to gain control over your computer system. The hacker might use the phone, email, snail mail or direct contact to gain illegal access. Phishing, spear-phishing, and CEO Fraud are forms of social engineering. […]

Vritualization Outage on Mar 4, 2016

This morning around 6:50 am one of the application host servers for our virtualization infrastructure went unresponsive. This brought down a small portion of our virtual machines including some development instances along with these public-facing websites: Public website (mlc-wels.edu) Authentication server (auth.mlc-wels.edu) Filr (filr.mlc-wels.edu) By 8:30 am all of the virtual machines were migrated to […]

First Batch of Website Tweaks Released

The redesign of the MLC website was released to the public just a few short weeks ago and already we are back with some tweaks to improve your experience while using the site. This post will highlight a few of those changes, give you a taste for how changes will continue in the future, and […]