Why Restart & Shutdown Buttons on login screen

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 00:13 +1000, David Timms wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> > At least one handy thing about it is that it's a simple thing to look at
> > that shows that the computer hasn't crashed.
> Or it would be if it showed the seconds ticking over... a minute is a
> long wait to get an idea about whether the machine has hung.

I think the question is whether the time shown on the screen is close to
the current time.

However an easier way is just to run an animated screen saver.

poc