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MAKER OF entertainment gear, Apple has got a mite sensitive about its relationship with NVidia and started deleting negative posts about the driver maker from its support group.
Over at Slashdot, Joe Drago is complaining that he bought a MacPro within the first week that they were available. After discovering that the OSX operating system needed more than 3GB of memory when he played World of Warcraft, he went out and bought enough RAM to sink a battleship.
For some reason his Apple did not like its new memory and went into kernel panic after he played for a few hours. After searching on an official Blizzard site he found out that his NVidia graphics card has a bug in their drivers that kernel panics a Mac Pro if any memory past the 2GB boundary is addressed in the driver.
Drago posted a question about the flaw on Apple's support site, only to find that it was removed by the glorious Apple administration. Naturally, he wondered why Apple was so swift to censor such a fairly innocent question about a third party driver. Amongst the reply posts on Slashdot was one which claimed to be from an Apple admin which said that they have been ordered to nuke anything regarding NVidia.
Apparently Apple's arrangement to provide kernel drivers involves some very restrictive IP deals that upper management has interpreted to mean support shouldn't even acknowledge certain kinds of bugs in a specific area. Although there is no proof that the poster is really from Apple, it makes sense, particularly in the light of Drago's experience.
The funny thing is that rather than getting much in the way of support from Slashdot readers, Drago is being hounded by Apple Fanboys who believe that Apple has the right to censor its forums as it likes. They do not seem to understand why anyone would take a screen shot of a post as proof that it had been taken down. µ
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http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/01/14/211242.shtml
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MAKER OF entertainment gear, Apple has got a mite sensitive about its relationship with NVidia and started deleting negative posts about the driver maker from its support group.
Over at Slashdot, Joe Drago is complaining that he bought a MacPro within the first week that they were available. After discovering that the OSX operating system needed more than 3GB of memory when he played World of Warcraft, he went out and bought enough RAM to sink a battleship.
For some reason his Apple did not like its new memory and went into kernel panic after he played for a few hours. After searching on an official Blizzard site he found out that his NVidia graphics card has a bug in their drivers that kernel panics a Mac Pro if any memory past the 2GB boundary is addressed in the driver.
Drago posted a question about the flaw on Apple's support site, only to find that it was removed by the glorious Apple administration. Naturally, he wondered why Apple was so swift to censor such a fairly innocent question about a third party driver. Amongst the reply posts on Slashdot was one which claimed to be from an Apple admin which said that they have been ordered to nuke anything regarding NVidia.
Apparently Apple's arrangement to provide kernel drivers involves some very restrictive IP deals that upper management has interpreted to mean support shouldn't even acknowledge certain kinds of bugs in a specific area. Although there is no proof that the poster is really from Apple, it makes sense, particularly in the light of Drago's experience.
The funny thing is that rather than getting much in the way of support from Slashdot readers, Drago is being hounded by Apple Fanboys who believe that Apple has the right to censor its forums as it likes. They do not seem to understand why anyone would take a screen shot of a post as proof that it had been taken down. µ
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More Info Here :
http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/01/14/211242.shtml
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