Nibble of Thoughts

Recently my laptop speaker conked off, and I have been using the earplugs since then.
But there is this irritating high-pitched beep which occurs every time there is a keyboard error, and it can really hurt.

I tried unsetting Beep from the gnome-sound-properties, but to no avail.
Finally I found a way to do this, and I am sure my ears are much happier now.

$ /usr/openwin/bin/xset b 0
$ /usr/openwin/bin/xset b off
$ /usr/openwin/bin/xset -b