Archive for July 1st, 2008

If you’re running your low-volume Ruby on Rails app on mod_rails (Passenger) and have wondered why the first page takes 5 seconds or more to load, there is an excellent explanation here.

Every now and then it is forcefully driven home to me that Linux is not yet ready for mass adoption. I have been trying to set up my back / forward mouse buttons on Feisty Fawn. There is no reason why this should be difficult but the official instructions are alarmingly non-deterministic! Exhortations to “experiment” are just plain annoying. Plug and Play (TM) might not be perfect but it gets the job done most of the time.