Deep Freeze Mac 2.0

I just read a short review in MacWorld about a utility by the name of Deep Freeze Mac 2.0. made by Faronics Technologies (www.faronics.com). This is a utility that automatically resets a Mac to prestine condition after a restart saving administrators hours of cleaning and troubleshooting.
Since this almost sounds too good to be true, I was wondering if anyone here has tried this program and would be willing to offer any comments, good or bad.
Thanks,
Barbara

Hi, Barbara.
You wrote: "I'm already protecting my harddrive with a good utility, SuperDuper."To be accurate, you're not protecting your hard drive with SuperDuper or any other backup and recovery utility.
What you are doing is significantly reducing the probability that you will lose your priceless data should your Mac's hard drive fail by regularly backing up your Mac's hard drive to another drive. You're protecting your investment in your data.
Even with a backup and recovery scheme in place, if your Mac's hard drive fails, you will lose new or changed data since the last backup was made. Hence why it is important to backup your data regularly, such as daily.
If you really want to ensure against data loss, you should also archive critical data to media like DVDs and store those off-site, such as in a safe deposit box. A fire, for example, could destroy your Mac and your backup drive. Or you could use a pair of FireWire drives for backup and regularly rotate them through a safe deposit box, always keeping a recent backup off-site.
For advice on the backup and recovery solution I employ, see my "Backup and Recovery" FAQ.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
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I say that because I ended up re-writing all of the task scripts and tacked on a /sbin/reboot onto the end just to save myself 5 seconds.
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I am interning at an IT department of a branch campus of a large university. Among other new exciting things I was recently given the responsibility to administer the 5 campus macs that are connected to the network as actual works machines (there are others but those are chat only machines and aren't connected to the same subnet but rather on wireless). 1 of them is a faculty members and is easy enough to figure out, the other 4 are in labs and have the Faronics software Deep Freeze installed on them. I have the deep freeze assistant installed for ARD (so i have all the UNIX commands) and the PDF manual from Faronics but am still unable to unfreeze computers across the network to run updates. I vaguely recall setting up the assistant and putting in the credentials for admin.. although I'm not sure if i put in the right stuff. My command to thaw a machine current looks like this
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I have learned a lot from you, Thank you!
It seems my situation doesn't allow me to wait until Apple fix the problem. If I don't buy an Mac soon, I will have to buy a PC (that's the last thing I want to do ... hope it will not ends up that way.)
I don't play game at all and will never play game on my Mac. So I guess the freezing issue may not be my problem. I just need a bit of luck not to pick up one with the display problems. .... iei... since when buying a Apple becoming such a complicated task? .....
one more stupid question: if the graphic card is the source of the problem, will watching movie, editing video (part of my project involving using still video images, and using software such as Photoshop/Painter ... also cause freezing?
I can almost hear you laughing already ... hehe ...
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Deep freeze's reboot frozen command doesn't finishes

Whenever i send a reboot frozen command from the ARD on the server, it doesn't finishes. The Reboot command is below.
osascript <<EndOfMyScript
tell application "System Events"
tell application process "loginwindow"
key code 125
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end tell
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