I have noted that one of the biggest weaknesses in our electral system (and any system, anyway) is the people. Can we concieve a system whereby Returning Officers (ROs) are not a link in the chain? A system where my vote goes straight to IEBC (or such body) and maybe prints a slip for confirmation at the polling station? Something like a touch screen menu, think ATM menus, where I select my candidate and the system posts to IEBC directly. It can have offline db so that in case there is no connection, the results can be stored locally and then synced with the central server. All the polling clerks need to do is verify me at the polling station. This way, we can get final results once the last person votes. On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Paul Njoroge <njorogekamau@gmail.com>wrote:
This <http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/results/> is pretty decent from Capital, but lacks Nairobi Gubernatorial
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Bernard Owuor <b_owuor@yahoo.com> wrote:
Erik, thanks for the link. (And great job with the http://results.uchaguzi.co.ke/index.php/senator.)
This can never be a disk space issue... the error gives it away: "Database Error: Unable to connect to the database:Could not connect to MySQL"
It's a case of using Windows 2008 server - without tweaking - when a LAMP server would work out of the box :) Which points to the bigger problem of using closed source systems for public interest software. After paying KES 9B (or some happy figure) for it, and with the very detailed RFP in the public domain, IEBC should be able to own the software. They should open-source it - since it's paid for with public money. (I understand it is still proprietary to IFES)
For such a system, the cost of implementing the solution far outweighs the price of the software, so IEBC will still pay a lot of money for it. However, we get better quality, future-proofing and some savings (in future elections). Biggest payoff is the trust engendered by openness.
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On Mar 6, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Patrick Kariuki <patrick.kariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
Who said scaling MYSQL is necessary when the cheque and traffic comes once every 4 years?
On 3/6/13, joe mwirigi <joemwirigi@gmail.com> wrote:
Lets just say its a KES 9B lesson to the government that hires 'foreign companies' because they are 'big'
I hear, the 'weed' tells me one had to login to the same server(database) to send the results. Am not sure they did run tests with 30,000 concurrent users so the db kept giving way, halafu mnajua zile logs za mysql on error. They filled the disk like crazy! -- just speculating -- I in no way know these guys! Then I can imagine the conversation
Boss: vhat is happening Signh (shaking his head) Signh: donno databes only 10 MEg. Just chekin. Boss: Vy data not coming in u nno. Signh: dh -f
$ unknown command $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 2000G 1999.2G 0.6G 99% / varrun 393M 144k 393M 1% /var/run varlock 393M 0 393M 0% /var/lock procbususb 393M 123k 393M 1% /proc/bus/usb udev 393M 123k 393M 1% /dev
Signh: They send too much, too much data, see Boss: Yeah, too much sending 2Tb full already, patel, vhere is that 4 Tb disk! just plug it and ve ar in business! Signh: >$sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart
$password: ** $ wrong password try again:*** $ ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server
through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
$
On a lighter note though *_______________________________________________________________ We must Keep on, *
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Dickson <dhikims@gmail.com> wrote:
Still the data amount is small even for processing. What amount of data does say bank systems process on a normal working day. Its bigger than what IEBC will process.
I believe we have skills that can handle that system. Let's give IEBC benefit of patience they sort themselves out. Best Regards,
Dickson.
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