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2009-01-29

Two things to make Ubuntu 8.10 less nerve-wrecking

Workaround for the "Hey guys! Let's use HAL for everything! It'll fuck up your keyboard repeat settings though, but that's no big deal, right! I mean, a keyboard! Ha! That's some old fogey stuff!"

Disable the PC speaker completely. As Gnome, in its infinite transcendent wisdom, has come to the conclusion that the PC speaker is the purveyor of all that is good and wise in the land. And hence there's no Gnome way to turn off that cursed beeper anymore.

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