Archive for March, 2007

DST proves to be a non-event.

I’m sure Congress didn’t fully consider the potential ramifications a change to DST could have on my personal computer, but as Dst-Day (March 11, 2007) approached you could see a heightened level of activity on the part of the IT division. How will the change effect email? Will the updates require a system restart? How [...]

Systems Outage on 3/4/07

We experienced a systems outage on Sunday, March 4, 2007 that affected our web services (internet web site, intranet web site, Blackboard, web registration, etc.). The outage happened between 3:30 am and 1:45 pm and was the result of a loss of cooling in the server room. Blackboard was also unavailable from 2:55 [...]