Yeah, you're right - rant was a bit strong.
Sorry. On the original
No problem.
subject, I wish I could help poor old George but I
don't know the answer
to his question ;-)
I, as a matter of fact, do, so politics aside, and on-topic again:
If you are using X11, use
$ xset b off
And I have seen that KDE has some control panel to assign error sounds.
From the console, I think you'll have to modify
your termcap.
Anywa, there is a Linux HOWTO on the subject:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Visual-Bell.html
Maarten