@ Okechukwu, we do not have the same discussion only when KCSE results are released but any time KNEC tries to put anything online or a government institution tries to put up a distributed system (e.g. KRA and tax returns) And it seems that most of us think about the systems part. How about the applications themselves, do the designers of such systems go through a honest-to-God systems analysis especially as far as DB queries are concerned. Well constructed queries can improve the performance of a system 10s of times. I'm certain that the KNEC systems are purely client-server query applications; Index NO, Province, district, etc, etc On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>wrote:

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:54, [Brainiac] <arebacollins@gmail.com> wrote:

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I think this is the meaningful dialogue some skunkers were asking for... We need like 43 replies for this... so here's mine:

Yet some other skunker will agree that on demand services from soneone like amazon or rackspace cloud will give you something to fit the budget and give a boost at this time when kenyas peculiar results accessing habits are on the peak.

So you guys surmise that hosting the service outside Kenya is better?? I still support the "all Kenyan, all the time" principle. I hate having to rely on some other people, denying the Kenyans employment! KNEC can generate enough money to setup the systems propose by Karunyu. Sometime back (I think it was during KCPE results) I suggested a small server running on SSD. That was a starting point, for such a setup.

But anyway, who cares? KNEC does not listen, because they could already have done something. KNEC doesn't read this forum and there is no one in this forum who knows anyone in KNEC who knows anyone who is in authority who can take this issue to the KNEC board (or whatever shit it is called) to take some action. Nkt!!

If KNEC was listening, skunkers could solve their problem within a month - at most, and probably for free.

Sometimes back while I was at Wananchi, we run this KNEC stuff on a dedicated workstation (running FreeBSD+Apache+MySQL..) and I don't ever recall any complaints then.

-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Damn!!

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