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Deep Freeze Mac 2.03 is a straightforward, easy-to-use utility that does what it claims to do: automatically reset a Mac to pristine condition after a restart. It can save hours of cleaning up and troubleshooting public Macs. more
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Deep Freeze Mac 2.03
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eRondeau 
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Posted 30 March 2006 - 07:22 PM
We tried Deep Freeze for Windows on about a dozen PC's at work with disastrous consequences! The "frozen" machines "forgot" their automatic software updates, virus scan configuration updates, even Windows updates. Soon new viruses started sneaking through. Our love affair with Deep Freeze lasted about two weeks before it brought the entire office to a crashing halt. Our I.T. people couldn't delete it fast enough.
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labman
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Posted 18 May 2006 - 05:44 AM
I would disagree with this. We use Deepfreeze extensively on the PC and it has more than paid for itself in labor from having to rebuild systems constantly. (We have it installed on about 500 PCs across campus)
The solution to your issue is to enable maintainance mode in deep freeze. All of ours reboot at 3 AM with security off. Windows updates and antivirus updates are schduled during this time, then the machines reboot with Deep Freeze turned back on at 5 AM and when we open, everything is updated and working as we want it to.
The solution to your issue is to enable maintainance mode in deep freeze. All of ours reboot at 3 AM with security off. Windows updates and antivirus updates are schduled during this time, then the machines reboot with Deep Freeze turned back on at 5 AM and when we open, everything is updated and working as we want it to.
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zahadum
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Posted 23 July 2006 - 12:11 AM
DANGER!, WILL ROBSIONSON, DANGER!!
stay away from this death trap - it is just as much of a disaster on the mac as it is on the windows (judging by the previous comment).
The manual does NOT tell you what the god dman default password is supposed to be! ... yet it is already masked out when you try to create the (first) admin account -- but since you dont know what it is, you cant log in! If you cant log-in (to the deepfreeze admin utility) then your are locked out of your machine, for all intents and purposes
CATCH-22!
Because the default mode after installation is for the machine to be LOCKED DOWN (grrrrr), you are immediately shut out of almost everything you would want to (continue) doing.
BEWARE Doing a 'forced quit' on the deep[freeze controller will NOT get you back any access!
When you next reboot (ie after installtion but not activation plus forced quit), YOUR WHOLE SYSTEM WILL BE TRASHED!!
The most obvious sign that you are totally scrwed by these morons is that the menubar has lost the ability to render fonts!
Re-starting in saftey mode is NOT possible (deep freeze sabotages the last stage of the kernel startup system).
And booting with the /user/ startup items off doesnt get you alot of mileage either (but at least you can start some applications - browser, disk utility, system profiler, terminal, etc) --- the one thing you SHOULD NOT do is to start the Finder; because the Finder launches the UIServer, which is where the deepfreeze controller 'lives'. Once DFC is awakened (like the Wraiths in a scene right out of SG-1 Atlantis!), all f&%$#@ hell breaks loose -- your system will just go crazy on you - and you will be forced to hard boot because the god dman AppleMenu has been disabled (as have the keyboard 'accelerators' for restart; as have nearly all the SystemPrerences app).
And even worse (as you begin to fear that the new dvd burner you bought just a day ago to backup your system is now going to be S.O.L.), running disk utility from another boot volume (YEAH for FIREWIRE iPOD!) shows that your disk is NOT REPAIRABLE!
Yikes!
These people at Faronics are from the windows world. They know F%#@*& ALL about Macs.
Avoid them like the plague.
I have no idea how I will reclaim my primary drive -- i am pretty certain that I am looking at a VERY UGLY reiinstall & many many hours of fine-tuning to keep my data.
The irony is that this product is touted as the ultimate 'undo' for tha mac -- yet it doesnt have any undo itself! (the Uninstall.app is NOWHERE to be found!!!).
This product design shows all the signs of having no UML behind it; the quality could only be described as late alpha.
Learn the hard way: scavange a laptop drive or an old iPod to use as (firwire) testbeds for ANYTHING that has irreversible side-effects on your system.
Don't subject your self to this QUAGMIRE.
cheers:dlf
stay away from this death trap - it is just as much of a disaster on the mac as it is on the windows (judging by the previous comment).
The manual does NOT tell you what the god dman default password is supposed to be! ... yet it is already masked out when you try to create the (first) admin account -- but since you dont know what it is, you cant log in! If you cant log-in (to the deepfreeze admin utility) then your are locked out of your machine, for all intents and purposes
CATCH-22!
Because the default mode after installation is for the machine to be LOCKED DOWN (grrrrr), you are immediately shut out of almost everything you would want to (continue) doing.
BEWARE Doing a 'forced quit' on the deep[freeze controller will NOT get you back any access!
When you next reboot (ie after installtion but not activation plus forced quit), YOUR WHOLE SYSTEM WILL BE TRASHED!!
The most obvious sign that you are totally scrwed by these morons is that the menubar has lost the ability to render fonts!
Re-starting in saftey mode is NOT possible (deep freeze sabotages the last stage of the kernel startup system).
And booting with the /user/ startup items off doesnt get you alot of mileage either (but at least you can start some applications - browser, disk utility, system profiler, terminal, etc) --- the one thing you SHOULD NOT do is to start the Finder; because the Finder launches the UIServer, which is where the deepfreeze controller 'lives'. Once DFC is awakened (like the Wraiths in a scene right out of SG-1 Atlantis!), all f&%$#@ hell breaks loose -- your system will just go crazy on you - and you will be forced to hard boot because the god dman AppleMenu has been disabled (as have the keyboard 'accelerators' for restart; as have nearly all the SystemPrerences app).
And even worse (as you begin to fear that the new dvd burner you bought just a day ago to backup your system is now going to be S.O.L.), running disk utility from another boot volume (YEAH for FIREWIRE iPOD!) shows that your disk is NOT REPAIRABLE!
Yikes!
These people at Faronics are from the windows world. They know F%#@*& ALL about Macs.
Avoid them like the plague.
I have no idea how I will reclaim my primary drive -- i am pretty certain that I am looking at a VERY UGLY reiinstall & many many hours of fine-tuning to keep my data.
The irony is that this product is touted as the ultimate 'undo' for tha mac -- yet it doesnt have any undo itself! (the Uninstall.app is NOWHERE to be found!!!).
This product design shows all the signs of having no UML behind it; the quality could only be described as late alpha.
Learn the hard way: scavange a laptop drive or an old iPod to use as (firwire) testbeds for ANYTHING that has irreversible side-effects on your system.
Don't subject your self to this QUAGMIRE.
cheers:dlf
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