Beep

Posted on 2002/11/07 14:14:32 (November 2002) by john.

I finally discovered the configuration setting to stop my PC beeping at me...



I think that illustrates the point reasonably well.

Great! I had an old BBC computer, which I modified similarly. The original didn't have a volume control, and got really rather annoying in the end ...

Posted by Jimmy at 2002/11/07 14:23:47.

It was beeping every time a build completed in Visual Studio. I couldn't for the life of me find an option in VC to stop it doing this. It was a particularly offensive beep too. It was like every time I did a build, my PC was saying "No, that isn't good enough.".

Posted by John at 2002/11/07 14:33:41.

You could have just as easily slacked off work (no more builds => no more beeps) and gone down the pub.

Posted by rowanboy at 2002/11/07 18:10:26.

Dammit - that's a good idea. Our firewall machine beeps every time you turn it on to complain that it hasn't got a keyboard or monitor. It hadn't occured to me it was that easy to shut it up.

Posted by Graf at 2002/11/07 23:47:44.

My solution. Less high tech but it does the job.

Posted by Rob Lang at 2002/11/08 24:09:01.

Near your PC speaker, you could write a little legend that says: "One beep = John has the sexiest bottom" or something.

Posted by dsp at 2002/11/10 13:35:17.

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