Quickly restarting the Dock in OS X

For some odd reason my Dock crashed today. Nothing would bring it up. Restarting Finder did not help. The solution turned out to be pretty simple and did not require grep-ing ps -a either.

To restart the Dock in OS X all one needs to do is launch Terminal and type killall Dock. Quick and easy; although I don't see how and why the Dock should be crashing at all. Just another item on the Leopard instability list.