Five Standard Deviations: October 2008

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Disable PC speaker beep on Thinkpad T60p

Thank god for this post on how to get rid of that annoying speaker beep , e.g. when windows comes out of sleep mode or when coding. One note for those using Windows XP, step 2 should be:

* In the control panel, go to System, Hardware tab, Device Manager

What is this?

A friend of mine once told me I was "five standard deviations from the mean [1]." That might have been a put-down to some, but it filled me with glee. I get a perverse sense of validation from being unique.

But being unique also poses some problems. It means that most products are not made with your priorities in mind. It means more work on your part to find the goods and services that are right for you.

That's where this blog comes in. I am hoping that there are a few people out there can identify with my weirdness and benefit from my findings.

[1] Roughly speaking, this means being more different from average/normal than 99.99994267% of all people.