- MySQL is owned by Oracle. Its the same company
- Facebook still uses MySQL which is a good percentage of the web. Wordpress
does (which is about 16%) and Joomla & Drupal do (each about 2%). MySQL (or
any of the more open alternatives eg. MariaDB) are still a save bet.
- If you make a list, press enter from time to time.
- What they could have used, is MongoDB. Mongo is designed to replicated data
to all nodes in the network. The replication is embedded into the db. MySQL is
also working on this, i think the latest latest releases have this NoSQL like
behaviour available.
- Why is google better than for example Mapbox or Cloudmade? I dont see that
logic.
rgds,
Reinier
On Thursday 07 March 2013 11:45:50 Ancel Bwire wrote:
1st let me state about the locations.if they are 9 then how can you group
counties and constituencies as the same?2nd the world for almost the last
8years has been moving from MySQL which I must say is quite old and easily
hackable and to the more reliable Oracle go ask any bank that runs their DB on
MySQL so why an election system for 2013?3rd fiber optic cables can handle
30million users per second and am sure an ISP can ensure that during election
traffic on their network to be less,4th which VPN can handle more than two
users
at the same time remember systems security public key private key only 2users
per session.Infact the only part I agree so far is the API for Google since am
a member for the Ugandan chapter and also cloud technology which even
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On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Simon Vass <[email protected]> wrote:
Paul,
Unfortunately all too true, but I always live in hope that someone is lurking
who can get this in front of a IT savvey Politician.
Simon
On 07/03/13 11:08, Paul Bagyenda wrote:
Laudable thoughts, but this is all about politics. That's how the got into the
mess. As somebody has pointed out, for the money they spent, and I don't think
they are short of clever people, they shouldn't have been in this mess. You
solve this in the political realm. Judging by the results flow this morning, my
feeling is they are on top of it. Reasons are complicated and non-IT...
On Mar 07, 2013, at 10:18, Simon Vass <[email protected]> wrote:
I just had the craziest thought, what if this project had been a Open Source
one? It seems that this technology in use is partially Open Source (MySQL).
Q. Why can't this be done as a East African FOSS Project, surely elections
need to happen and be monitored here and elsewhere.
Politics aside we are a regional unit, do our various political election
methods differ so greatly that such a project would need much country by
country customisation?
Is FOSS not the ultimate form of transparency? If everyone has the code, does
that not lower the possibility of hacking? Especially if some unit testing is
done to make sure what is entered makes sense?
Would it not save money for us to all use the same system? Probably could get
funding for it from NDI or similar?
Simon
On 07/03/13 10:11, Ancel Bwire wrote:
am also investigating but will come up with some tips
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On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:52 AM, G.Y. Mukalazi <[email protected]> wrote:
on paper it looks tight how then does it fail not on one location but all, and
Safaricome issues a statement distancing themselves from the Failure of the
system.
http://www.humanipo.com/news/4432/It-is-not-our-fault-Safaricom-says-of-
failure-of-election-results-relay
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Ancel Bwire <[email protected]> wrote:
This is how the whole thing works at the
electral body There are 9 premises in the whole
interconnection
1. Bomas (Tallying Center)
2. HQ(Anniversary Towers)
3. Safaricom & Airtel
4. 47 Counties 5. 291 Constituencies( including Diaspora) 6.
Streams(Each Polling station had
streams, actual voting points)
7. DR site
8. Internet
9. IEBC Website The HQ, BOMAS, Safaricom & Airtel are
connected through P2P links of over 10MB.
Internet is provided by AccessKenya
through fiber link provided by JTL. AK also
has a redundant link through a Radio The Streams are connected to the HQ via
Safaricom & Airtel Cloud through a VPN
(APN). At each stream is a Nokia Symbian
Run Phone with a Java Application that
transmits the poll results. The poll results
are multicast to Bomas, HQ, Constituency & County. At Each
constituency & county is a
laptop running the Result system and a
MYSQL DB. The same thing that runs at
BOMAS. The intention was to have the
results at all those locations at the same
time. BOMAS has a server running the application
& DB and so is the HQ & the DR site which
replicates the data. The API is provided
through the internet with google providing
the GIS/Mapping The IEBC website is hosted by Safaricom
cloud and is supposedly on a clustered DB Now there are rumors on whether the
system was hacked on poorly coded. I cant
say for sure but the biggest challenge for
IEBC has been in distribution of phones,
simcards and configurations of the phones.
The main challenge for the system were logistical issues rather than
technical. Technical challenges revolve around lack of
proper testing which again is brought
about by logistical issues(Imagine a mock
transmission for 33000 units and yet the
phones & simcards are still in the
warehouses or unprocured!). The other technical issue revolved around
compilation of the register(Data). to be cont.....
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