Turning off annoying beep on Suse Linux

This does not work.
First thing was to turn off the annoying beep. Followed the instructions at http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-linux-disable-or-turn-off-beep-sound-for-terminal/ 

Open you ~/.inputrc file (i.e. /home/you/.inputrc file
$ cd
$ vi .inputrcAppend following line:
set bell-style none

Save and close the file.

After this I needed to reboot for the beep to go off (most likely logoff and then login would be sufficient).