Re: The Sound of Silence

In article <MPG.23039e801e26d8c398990f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
netcat <netcat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It was not actually my intention to completely shun Usenet during my
vacation, indeed I initially thought I'd have _more_ time for it, and
used the upcoming vacation as a good excuse for buying an Asus Eee900.
Boy was that ever a wrong decision. The form factor and weight are the
only good things about it. It's so terribly sluggish I nearly threw it
at a wall a couple dozen times, and the keyboard is more unwieldy than
my ancient Psion used to be, not to mention unresponsive, and for a
small thing it is unbearably noisy when the fan kicks in (and it does,
pretty quickly, as it gets quite hot), so there goes the hope of using
it as an e-book reader. It did save my bacon on those few times when I
needed an emergency rdesktop session, (never mind that the included
version of rdesktop doesn't do anything except crash) of but as for
using it for anything involving extensive typing... no. How does Charlie
manage it, I can't imagine.

I got a 900 before spending two weeks travelling abroad. The only
serious problem I had, aside from not being used to Linux, was the
keyboard. The layout makes it easy to hit caps lock when trying for the
left shift key or up arrow when trying for the right shift key, both of
which are annoying.

The obvious solution is to remap the keyboard, making up arrow into
another shift key and (say) alt up arrow into up arrow, and similarly
with caps lock. So far I haven't found any Linux utility to do it with,
but I also haven't spent a lot of time looking. I did find a description
of how to do some similar things from the command line, which I might
try to adapt to my purpose.

The size of the keyboard isn't a general problem--I just have to move my
fingers less. And I don't find the speed a problem for things like email
or word processing, which are a good deal of what I was doing on it.

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