Problem with KDE sound

Is KDE your favourite desktop environment? I'm using it because it's much cooler than Gnome :P
As a penguin tamer, I always read the cool Linux articles by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. One of my favourite was his article titled "Little Red Riding Tux meets the Big Bad Wolf". The podcast was so cool that I wanted to make it my KDE startup theme so that I can hear it everytime I start my Linux box ;)
Unfortunately, for some weird reason, KDE just refused to play it :P Maybe because of the file being stored in mp3 format. What's even worse, it caused my sound driver to stop working -.- And for some weird reason, even when I reseted the sound theme to default, sometimes the old config still popped out of nowhere.
Care less about the KDE config bug :P Atm all I need is a way to get my sound working without having to restart KDE. A simple solution is to restart the sound driver. As I am using alsa, the command is

service alsa restart

That's it for now! Have fun taming your penguin guys ;)

Welcome :)

Welcome to my new blog - Penguin tamer :)

Why create another blog, while I already have (a very nice) one? :D Well, as you already know, I have a penguin at home :) Although I have been a skillful Tiger tamer for a few years, taming the penguin is still a challenge for me. Mostly because since I started going to prison (aka work :D), I don't have much time with the penguin anymore. And as the penguin is surely more powerful than the other competitors from M$ and Mac, more effort is needed in order to control him :)

Some info about my penguin:
- Distro: Mandriva 2007 Beta 2
- Kernel: 2.6.17-3mdv
- Desktop: KDE 3.5.4, fluxbox 0.9.15
(More will be added later)

I'm just above the beginner level so anything I post will be inaccurate/incomplete. Please feel free to add comments/suggestions :)