If we are talking about the completion-beep, etc., as described by the original post, SOME OF US WANT IT. I opened a bug report a week or so ago (now fixed) when Karmic started muting the beep on reboot all the time; I had to go in via ALSAMIXER to re-enable the beep after each reboot, and adjust its volume down to about 20% or so (yes, full volume is far too loud).
If we are talking about the completion-beep, etc., as described by the original post, SOME OF US WANT IT. I opened a bug report a week or so ago (now fixed) when Karmic started muting the beep on reboot all the time; I had to go in via ALSAMIXER to re-enable the beep after each reboot, and adjust its volume down to about 20% or so (yes, full volume is far too loud).