Why Restart & Shutdown Buttons on login screen

[Tim]

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.

David Timms: 
>> 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.

Patrick O'Callaghan: 
> I think the question is whether the time shown on the screen is close to
> the current time.

Yes, I'm thinking more of:  At some time you glance at an idle box, see
the clock, and notice that it appears fine or jammed up some time ago.
Rather than watching a box just waiting for activity.

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

I'm not sure that you could do that on the log-in screen, nor whether
that'd be a good idea for security reasons, though it would be for real
screen *saving* reasons.

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