Dell 2100 N - Coming to terms

Here are more notes on the adaptation of carrying this little guy around.

Battery life: no problem. I find that I can go all day long without using the charger, provided I suspend when not using. In fact, I may have > 4hrs of battery life at the end of a very long day.

Space bar-touchpad issue: I have gotten a reasonable solution to this. I tried simply disabling the touchpad altogether, which worked, but there are some things I want to use it for since I don't want to carry a mouse with me. Plan B has been pretty good: just disabling the touch of the pad to act as a mouse click, which was the biggest problem by far.

Unfortunate PgDn key problem: Not sure why someone thought this was Ok, but the right lower corner of the keyboard has this configuration:

PgUp Up PgDn
Left Down Right

where Up, Left, Down, and Right refer to arrow keys. The problem is that when I am using a text editor, I frequently am wanting to reposition the cursor with arrow keys, and time and again I try to go from Up to Right arrow and go to PgDn instead. I've tried to remap the PgDn key (to right-Ctrl) without success so far -- it's doable, I just need to get the commands down in the .Xmodmap file.

Still no DVD drive, so still using Ubuntu.