I agree with others that it's plain unwise to write guides and let noobs alter settings they shouldn't alter. But on the other hand you have to realize: these 'n00b' people here that still ask these questions are the ones trying not to give up on their N900, the rest has moved on.

So, I think it's also a good approach to gather best-practice methods into comprehensible guides and/or packages, that allow the 'regular user' to have a great Maemo experience as well. For example, the script by Impehan looks really promising, and would help me, and a lot of others out, but I'm simply not able to implement this right now. Converting this into a package ('app' in regular-user words) would involve no risk for the regular user, and help out, right?

Now, back to the Swap-to-microSD thing: am I right that an 'easy' approach would be to create a file on the micro-SD and use swapset or just swapon to enable the file? The steps would be:
1. create file, name ...
2. use 'swapon ...' to test
3. run [thing] to disable unmounting on removing cover
4. do [thing] to include both measures in bootloop
5. [...]
6. profit!
7. some incredible hero converts this into an app, and gets donations, thanks, and so on

Right? Now, can someone help me fill in the blanks?