A couple of many-months ago, there were two KRA techies on this list, although not necessarily working on those tax systems, and from my interactions with them, the knew their stuff pretty well.

And many many many years ago, one of the guru system admins at the University I was learning at was poached by KRA to work at their wilson airport dev base.

Based on those two flimsy observations, I would offer the opinion that they may have the skill.


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Kevin Njoroge <nknkevin@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Adam,
Somebody ought to explain this, really, because it makes the really good administrators and our profession in general, look bad.

It is not once I have been confronted and asked to explain this. When I do explain what the possible causes are, I am asked, "why don't you tell them what to do?"

If it is a budgetary problem, they as a department can take it up with top level management. But if they are to succeed, they need to build a case in conjunction with all the other departments, diplomatic style.

If they don't know what to do, they need to consult from more experienced guys.

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On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 11:55 AM, Adam Nelson <adam@varud.com> wrote:

That site is riddled with problems and it definitely makes the department
look like it's made up of rookies ... but what can you do?


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On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Kevin Njoroge <nknkevin@gmail.com> wrote:

> For a while I have noticed accessing kra.co.ke and iTax systems has been
> having issues. Although it's not as bad as it was months ago, it still
> happens. I figure they changed a lot of things which is commendable, but I
> still have to ask:
>
> - Is it that they have low bandwidth on their servers such that it is
> difficult to access it when everybody is on it? Or is it that someone
> hasn't noticed that they need to increase the number of requests that the
> server can handle at any one time?
>
> It's funny that error 503s still happen since they (the KRA server admins)
> should be expecting a lot traffic to their sites. Somebody break it down
> for me because this baffles me. Is it a budget issue (they are not being
> given the resources they need), a competency issue (they don't know what to
> do) or a security issue (they are limiting requests to prevent hacking) or
> what?
>
> Also, I think the KNEC and KPLC website and server admins should learn
> something from this because when a major update comes from those companies,
> error 503 from their sites becomes the order of the day , which I think,
> makes them look like rookies (no offence).
>
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