Pulseaudio and its Daemons

KDE 4.3 comes up with pulseaudio whether I want it or not. If I were to use it, I need to start it with options other than the default used, I sincerely believe. Problem is that, as I have stated, an instance of hald and dbus, owned by haldaemon and messageboxd.., are started with it. These bog

Fighting kio_http_cache_cleaner

For some time now kio_http_cache_cleaner has been making me mad by generating huge io in the background running on the least favorable ioniceness (should I say iobadness) regardless of other heavy io jobs, or the laptop being on batteries. iotop gives me the following: Total DISK READ: 656.84