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Besides, if you have a company, or product that is say, the "netshredder". Nowadays, people look for you automatically at netshredder.com. Where do they go now? netshredder.ustm? .gtm? .com? .product? I personally think that we need a *better* way of handling domains that is "product" friendly

The people at RealNames thought of this too and created RealNames Internet Keywords.

but why is the Linux kernel compressed? Wouldn't that make the loading process longer because it must be uncompressed?

Rotating storage is slow. Executable compression products such as free UPX take advantage of the fact that loading a compressed file and unzipping it on a modern CPU-memory system is often faster than loading the same file, uncompressed, from rotating storage media such as hard drives or {C|DV}D-ROM drives.

Also, I wish that Linux could have a much smaller text editor. Windows Notepad is only 34KB in Windows 95

• Use pico. It's said to be much easier to learn than vim and still much more powerful than Notepad, especially taking into account all the DLLs that Notepad loads.
• Keep an Emacs session running in the background (C-z). Parts of Emacs will be swapped in as necessary.
• Use one of the hundreds of text editors available on OSDN Freshmeat.

My winmodem doesn't work properly with Debian.

Then why did you pay your hard-earned precious money for a modem that was designed to work exclusively with Microsoft® brand Windows® brand systems and not with Debian GNU/Linux® systems?

Also..solitare and minesweeper don't seem to work.

What problems did you have getting XFree86, GNOME, and GNOME Mines to work? These are the kinds of questions you might want to ask at debianHELP.org.

BSD is NOT open source. it doesn not meet the open-source license critera as designed by bruce perins.

But the BSD License, version 2.0, does meet Eric S. Raymond's Open Source Definition (the Debian free software guidelines are nearly identical) as well as being a non-copyle ft GPL-compatible free software license according to Richard M. "Goat ScanDisker" Stallman

There is absolutely no corelation between Moores law and whether something is computable or not. The time domain plays no part in it and neither does whether its apropriate to solve the problem that way.

It depends on your definition of "computable." "Theoretically computable" is a necessary but not sufficient condition for "practically computable." A Turing machine has an unbounded tape; no real computer can match it. If there are more steps in an algorithm than atoms in the known universe, I'd like to see you come up with a successful Go bot.

many, many programs are debugged enough to be useful, like the Netscape browser I am using right now.

By "Netscape" you mean a recent release of the Mozilla browser, correct? Netscape 4.x just too buggy for me to work with at least.

If I wanted to use DirectDraw in DirectX8 I would simple create an IDirectDraw7 interface exactly as I had done in DirectX7.

What I meant was that Microsoft is no longer actively developing DirectDraw, except as a wrapper around Direct3D that takes advantage of a whole new set of calls (nicknamed "Direct2D") to manipulate 2D surfaces using 3D hardware (presumably with some sort of parallel projection).