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I know that my mailbox on the Film-Tech server gets its own 128 swap file. It was necessary.

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Ram disks are very current technology, only outdated because the current memory model utilizes the ram more efficiently. The only place they are officially used is on the emergwncy boot disk for win9x. BTW, win9x uses the 9x kernel, which is based on the DOS one in the sense of 16 bit compatability. It is completely different in all other resepects and it is that compatability that makes it unstable. (NT runs 16 bit stuff, but in a way that is can not take down the system)

Linux can use a swap greater than 128. Just make the swap partition bigger. I usually use 256, and I have 384 megs of ram. The *BSD's are better for servers. In the event of flooding, they take a lot more punches before getting knocked out.

VM is different from a ram disk. I think that was covered. Be warned against mixing Mac terms with PC terms. Macs are much friendlier with ram disks, but setting the memory cache in the browser is about the same thing. Also, turning VM off is good on Macs if you have a lot of ram since the more hard drive space you have devoted to the VM, the more overhead the finder (kernel in Mac X, but its VM is MUCH faster anyway), causing the slowdowns. Just dont run out of ram, macs hate that.
When tuning the VM on a PC: Its best, but not required to have the swap file (the VM file on the disk) to be on a separate drive. If it is, it needs it own bus (plug) on the main board, otherwise its pointless. But the big speed hit is when during a page operation, windows needs to resize the swap file. Just manually set it to 1.5 times the amount of physical ram you have.

But if theres one thing you should remember...wear sunscrean.
I mean use Mozilla, and a mac. Windoze is really only good for compatability and uptight IT techs with rebates and fat bonus's being waved in their face by a nameless corporation in Redmond.

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As for the BSD "issue", yes its religious, but your religion is wrong. Just kidding. I never said either was more stable, I dont think I've seen a linux box go down without be stabbing it to death. BSD just has the numbers. ftp.cdrom.com = most traffic in a single day using FreeBSD. Thats good stuff there when the distributed but well maintained project beats out the silly microsoft New(?) Technology systems.

BSD has the issue of being segregated to niche markets. Each being very good at its niche, but not so much in general purpose use like linux is.

Simple solution: Overthrow the evil tyrants in Redmond, replace their system with a BSD based one (read :Mac OS X) and have a nice, technologically superior unix world, just like it all began. And like I said before, screw IE.(pay no attention the the navigator.appName behind the curtain, even I dabble in a bit of IE heresy sometimes, but I still hate it)

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Scott can give history on it and why it is so annoying, for apparently a long time ago keyboards did not have arrow keys or something and people had to use keyboard short cuts. Scott mastered this program when he was in the 3rd grade (I'm assuming) but I am not computer-literate enough for my brain to be able to handle keyboard shortcuts of this magnitude. Every other program I have ever worked on uses a mouse or arrow keys and this thing just makes my head explode. Then again, me never said me wuz smart or nothin.

However, "Vi" still seems like it needs a little work. Only three different buttons comprise a single shortcut? What's up with that? There should be no less than 11 simultaneous buttons required to be pressed for any one command. That way you have to use all 10 fingers plus your nose/chin/other appendage.