Sunday, August 3, 2003
More EMusic -- 4:41 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun
I recently resubscribed to EMusic because they added some new albums that I wanted to check out (most notably, a couple by The Cult). I also noticed that they have reencoded the vast majority of their mp3s at a variable bitrate, averaging about 192K. The sound quality is noticably better than the old 128K fixed encoding. Thus, I'm redownloading some of the albums that I had snagged before. The files are substantially bigger now, but I think the sound quality is worth it.
The only problem I ran into is that their download manager didn't want to let me download anything. After searching their forums, I found you could either comment out the line in emusicdlm that starts with export or just run emusicdlm-bin directly and everything works fine. I'm not doing cartwheels about the program, but it works.
Friday, August 1, 2003
Mozilla XFT Revisited -- 2:07 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun
Just for kicks, I decided to trying compiling Mozilla 1.4 final with XFT support built in for font antialiasing. Previous versions had worked, but some fonts ended up fuzzy or with bits missing. To top it all off, it was rather slow. Following these instructions, I compiled Mozilla. About an hour later, I had myself an XFT build. I'm rather impressed with it. Page rendering is much, much faster and much clearer. If you use Linux and haven't tried a Mozilla XFT build in a while, give it a spin.
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