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Often I'm in a place where I want my laptop to suddenly not make quiet as
much noise as it's annoying someone else (for example when someone thought
it might be classy to stick a midi on a webpage I've stumbled across at
work - nice one guys.) So, when I realise I'm making too much noise first
action is to whap the the 'turn off speaker' button. I then say I'm sorry
to whoever I've disturbed. I then press the 'turn volume down button'
which causes the laptop to turn the sound back on again at a slightly
lower volume and me to get the Glare Of Death from everyone around me.
Which idiot decided that the 'make less noise' button should turn the
sound back on? Both my Apple iBook and my Thinkpad do the same thing, so
it's not just one braindead manufacturer. Apple win the stupidity award
though - when sound is turned off I can't even adjust the volume with the
graphical menulet thingy - it's disabled until I turn the sound back on
again.
Gah.
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