So I finally went and watched RotK tonight.
I was blown away. This movie totally met my expectations, and I can’t say that there have been many movies lately that have done that.
I think I’ll *cough* acquire a copy of it on Video CD for my sister, since it’s going to be off cinemas when she arrives (Wednesday).
While I wait until I can purchase an ATX chassis, thermal grease, a linmodem and a DVD-ROM drive at a reasonably cheap price from a wholesale outlet, I’ve been building a kernel to suit the new hardware. It’s essentially 2.4.24 patched with Software Suspend 2.0, kernel preemption, low-latency scheduling, ACPI and forcedeth. Surprisingly the patches applied cleanly. Unfortunately, forcedeth seems to have been written for an earlier 2.4 kernel, so its compilation broke, but was fixed easily enough.
Now I’m building i2c, lm_sensors and nForce graphics drivers.
Tomorrow we go to Abu Dhabi. I expect to be really really bored. At least I’ll have something to look forward to if I manage to purchase the items in the morning.
