Patterns

Ever tried to get rid of the annoying PC Speaker  sound (e.g. when using auto-completion in a shell)? Under Ubuntu (and probably other distributions as well) do the following to bring silence to the masses:

For the running system:
rmmod pcspkr

Forever (aka after a reboot) edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and add the following line to the bottom
blacklist pcspkr