<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Hi,<br><br>The information to be visualized is minimal as what is being received is only summaries from the polling stations and not each voters results which would mean that the data could be visualized quite comfortably with a spreadsheet on a 486 or lower processor so when they say that it was underpowered on what platform where they running the application, a Huawei ID10T "smart phone".<br><br>This is a clear indication that all we remain is a silicon savanna where there is a scarcity of trees from which one can climb to get a vantage point into the future.<br><br>(A <b>savanna</b>, or <b>savannah</b>, is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grassland" title="Grassland">grassland</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem" title="Ecosystem">ecosystem</a> characterized by the trees being sufficiently small or
widely spaced so that the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canopy_%28forest%29" title="Canopy (forest)" class="mw-redirect">canopy</a> does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach the ground to support an unbroken <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbaceous" title="Herbaceous" class="mw-redirect">herbaceous</a> layer consisting primarily of grasses.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savanna#cite_note-1"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savanna#cite_note-2"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WernerIntro_3-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savanna#cite_note-WernerIntro-3"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a></sup> Some classification systems<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words" title="Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words" class="mw-redirect"><span title="The material in the vicinity of this tag may use weasel words or too-vague attribution. from April 2010">which?</span></a></i>]</sup> also recognize a grassland savanna from which trees are absent.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savanna#cite_note-4"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a></sup> This article deals only with savanna under the common definition of a grassy woodland with a significant woody plant component)<br><br>Regards<br><div><span><br></span></div><div> </div><div>Robert Yawe<br>KAY System Technologies Ltd<br>Phoenix House, 6th Floor<br>P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200<br>Kenya<br><br></div><div>Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696<br> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new
york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Gabe Sailepo <gabe@kentelcom.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 28 February 2013, 0:15<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: [kictanet] Techies to fail Kenya again<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv1461189415">
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<div class="yiv1461189415MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">We are living in the day and age of Hardware Abstraction, Multi-core CPU, Hypervisors and Virtualization of physical resources.</span></div>
<div class="yiv1461189415MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">The statement “Server was under powered” does not inspire a lot of confidence in our nascent IT Industry.</span></div>
<div class="yiv1461189415MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">In my opinion, the physical hardware should no longer a limitation once you virtualize the Compute, Network and Storage Nodes?</span></div>
<div class="yiv1461189415MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">Did the engineers do any stress-tests and capacity planning? Did they even scale the System?</span></div>
<div class="yiv1461189415MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">It would be ironic and tragic if the Kenyan Elections failed due to some ID10T errors considering that Kenya is the African Silicon Savannah.</span></div>
<div class="yiv1461189415MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">“Never was so much owed by so many to so few” stolen from Churchill.</span></div>
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<div class="yiv1461189415MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">Gabe Shompole</span></div>
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<div class="yiv1461189415MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> kictanet [mailto:kictanet-bounces+gabe.shompole=kentelcom.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>robert yawe<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 26, 2013 9:59 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Gabe Shompole<br>
<b>Cc:</b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [kictanet] Techies to fail Kenya again</span></div>
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I am shocked that none of the people of this list felt it necessary to the bring the following issues to light yet it could be a major issue if not resolved immeidate<br>
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“Sunday when we had the transmission of results, there was something that didn’t work. We used a server of a lesser power than the one we thought we should use. We confirmed that all results were relayed to the server but it could not do visualisation,” Mr
Oswago said.<br>
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<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://elections.nation.co.ke/news/System-to-relay-poll-tally-queried-/-/1631868/1704724/-/5pbyj5z/-/index.html">http://elections.nation.co.ke/news/System-to-relay-poll-tally-queried-/-/1631868/1704724/-/5pbyj5z/-/index.html</a><br>
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Shall we keep behaving like pathologists whose clients have no opportunity for a second opinion?<br>
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<div class="yiv1461189415MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Robert Yawe<br>
KAY System Technologies Ltd<br>
Phoenix House, 6th Floor<br>
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200<br>
Kenya</span></div>
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<div class="yiv1461189415MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696</span></div>
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