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gladiator
#1 Posted : Saturday, March 09, 2013 1:17:09 PM
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Here is a link from an insider explaining the issues that befell the IEBC electronic transmission system.

http://iebctechkenya.tum...f-the-iebc-tech-failure

As I had predicted in the main results thread, the main culprit was misconfiguration of the backup software that I have come across before.

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I can also state that RTS was not creating files and thus the partition was not filled by RTS data but rather by Mysql binary logs that were being generated in situ due to database replication which was switch on.


Good to see my initial analysis vindicated. I expect to see more details on this and the EVID issue next week.
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nakujua
#2 Posted : Saturday, March 09, 2013 1:33:31 PM
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Location: Kenya
"it is a great piece of software that run under conditions that were not exactly optimal for its correct performance."

I will still simplify this whole thing, if a system can not handle 30,000 text message sized data, at whichever level, be it capture transmission, storage or processing then there is a big problem.

high school kids can design and run such a system, I am sure if its given as a ksce computer projects we would get a good number of As
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Buster
#3 Posted : Saturday, March 09, 2013 1:38:24 PM
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Deliberate???
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