qBittorent Keeps Crashing After a Few Minutes (Or Seconds)

Today qbittorrent kept crashing on me a lot. I noticed that it had quit on me before on this install of Debian Stable ("Wheezy") but had not been quite sure. After all, it's Debian, right? Debian Stable IS stable as a rock and all that, these things can't happen. Turns out, it's not really Debian's fault after all, although they could have made some fixed packages available or even better, provided an updated library in backports for those who need it. Let me explain.

Sabayon Fscked My Home - The XFCE Spin Revisited

This should originally have been entitled 'The Sabayon Xfce Spin Revisited', but something disturbing happened. It's been a while since I tried Xfce 5.3 last August, but in the fast moving world of software and technology a year can be a long time. Back then I was a bit unhappy about the size of 628 MB that gave the user little more than Firefox and the package manager.

Debian Bug: Iceweasel w/ Gtk-qt-engine Installed Consumes 100% CPU Power

After my recent trial run of the latest Kanotix I bumped into a bug with Iceweasel and gtk-qt-engine under KDE 4, as described in this 572162 and this bug report 543402, and possibly 523824.
Iceweasel on exiting leaves a process behind that consumes 100% CPU power on one core which can only be terminated by killing the PID.