screen blanking considered useless

[Ian Chapman]

Florin Andrei wrote:
> In text mode, the console goes blank after a predetermined time - I 
> think it's 15 minutes or something like that.
> 
> I would argue that this is unnecessary nowadays.

Less necessary, probably true. However I have an iMac that now has a 
nice "burn-in" on it's flat panel of a text mode dialogue box telling me 
X has restarted too many times. I didn't think it could happen on modern 
monitors, in paritcularly I thought it was only really applicable to 
CRTs but it appears in at least some circumstances it still can.

-- 
Ian Chapman.