It's not directly relevant to this article, but you can stop the beeping of a Thinkpad keyboard by disabling this driver.<p>See:<p><a href="http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=155201" rel="nofollow">http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=155201</a>
Quite a fun an informative article. I've not plugged in a pc-speaker component into my builds the last 6 or so years, I'd gotten used to peace and quiet without shrill (and very loud) beeping coming from inside my box.