I’m known to have a set of headphones glued to my head while working.  Sadly on a daily basis I find myself blowing my ears out when I hit a tab in VMWare and the PC speaker beep goes off.  Luckily I found this command to disable that from happening ever again:

$ echo "blacklist pcspkr"|sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

I’ve added that to all my VM templates so hopefully I’ll save my hearing from now on.  Pretty sad that this is my only blog post this year.