I’m back on my Asus at the moment.
If you are thinking of getting a netbook and you will be doing lots of reading/surfing on it, I would recommend one where page up and down are a single button each.
On this Asus page up is fn+ up arrow.
Needing 2 hands on the keyboard makes surfing a bit too much like work, because the trackpads are small I find I use the keyboard maybe a bit more than a desktop.
Mind you I’m using a Dell corporate small style keyboard at the moment, I think the tiny crappy Asus keyboard is easier to use.
Just a thought…
cheers
Simon
Smurf on Spreadsheets 
Tuesday, 16th December, 2008 at 12:26 pm |
@Simon:
Someone posted a new one (to me, anyway) a couple of weeks ago. Spacebar and Shift – Spacebar do the page thing, at least in IE. Tried that?
Tuesday, 16th December, 2008 at 7:00 pm |
You must love using vi under Linux where single letter keys move the cursor around within text files.
Are you sure there isn’t an X Windows utility that allows you to remap keys for specific X clients? I could swear there was one, but I don’t recall the name.
Tuesday, 16th December, 2008 at 7:08 pm |
Alex – sweeeeet that works in ff on Linux too. Thanks.
Harlan there maybe is a utility, I havent looked very hard. And I wont be doing anytime soon now Alex has come up trumps.
I did want to remap my windows key to turn off in Ubuntu, but there doesn’t seem to be a UI based way to do it. And of course I haven’t made as much progress on learning the terminal as I had hoped. 2009 maybe, unless someone knows the answer off the top of their head? No biggie if not I want to get more into that stuff anyway.
Thursday, 18th December, 2008 at 5:06 pm |
@Simon: so glad I could help (who knew?).
For the “one key at a time” crowd, my buddy Cam tells me that “BackSpace” and “Shift+BackSpace” work the same as BACK and NEXT in IE