Agree.I wouldn't care if MS Office,Photoshop takes some extra time to start.The wait would be worth it.For all the bashing Microsoft gets,MS Office and Active Directory are products which really,really way better when compared to their open source counterparts.So,let the engineers have their 30 seconds of glory! :-)
AD has pretty much no serious replacement, but MSO is for me as bad as everything else out there. Office in general constantly crashes and the only thing that is reasonable in Outlook is the calendar integration. It's so bad, that in 2007 it still didn't have a good threading view of messages. Communicator is a joke where you can't even do local list search - you either have to query global company address list, or manually scroll through your contacts...
In general no - I can't agree they're "really, really way better" than OS replacements. They're better for some people, worse for others.
If this was for Postgres refer this :
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Binary_Replication_Tutorial
See the section "Starting Replication with only a Quick Master Restart", I tested this with a DB <10 GB. The setup time for replication was in the order of minutes. On a related note, it would be awesome if someone could point out real-world experiences for Postgres 9.1 synchronous replication.
From the comments below, it seems that only the "non-nerds", "non-tech savy" guys would be naive enough to be suspicious when they get an anonymous SMS notification to divulge personal details.Maybe in a perfect world, that is true, but we are not there yet.
I know that the next big viral, customer-facing app/service would probably be pushing the boundary of privacy and build new business-models around it. I find this a tad depressing.
I don't know about other desktop browsers, but there would be no way to run this on an iPad for very simple reasons, you can't resize iPad browser windows, and have multiple on screen at once.
From some browsing on Google + , I feel that many aren't using circles the right way.
I am able to see random people's post planning for trek during the weekend. If it were FB, I might not have seen it. Maybe I would have been prompted to 'add as friend' .
