Life is Cool :)

Yes, I did.
Yes, I snapped it off.
Yes, I muted that damn annoying thing.

One of the most absurd things I have experienced with MS Windows ... the crappy beep when you alter the sound from the volume controller in the system tray.It doesn't spare me when I receive an email on another crappy application: MS Outlook. Not even if its a batch generated mail. Hell, not even if its spam !!!

The worst part is that the customized Windows XP we have in our Office works very closely with the internal speaker of the CPU. The songs I play, & enjoy very much on my Sennheisers are very much heard as a noise by my colleagues, thanks to simultaneously playing internal speaker.

I had devised a way to sideline it, few months back. But it had the guts to trouble me once in a while. Yesterday it was even annoying when it assumed the role of a PA system & enjoyed its few seconds of fame. The kind of person I am, I would pull out a gun & BANG, shoot it in the head. Point blank. Now since, it won't suit me doing anything like that in the lovely office, it had to be done in some other manner. The fact that I don't have a gun, doesn't matter.

So, today was THE DAY. Thanks to a RAM upgrade last year, the CPU wasn't sealed.
The cover came out in a flash.
The speaker identified.
The connecting cable identified.
The funda explained to Prabhu.
The connecting port identified on the motherboard.
Confirmed with the label on the board.
A finger went in, & SNAP. The speaker has gone silent..............................

No more shitty beeps for spam emails.
No more complaints from colleagues.
No more moments of tension before clicking that PLAY button.
Life is cool :)