Slashdot Mirror

flewp points to this CNN story about yet another bit of evidence for life on the red planet, writing: "Basically, two Mars probes have found similiarities between Mars rocks and terrestrial rocks found in desert environments. Some real promising stuff for the supporters of martian life. Essentially, the organisms (if there) take metals from the atmosphere and oxidize them, and make them stick using secretions, leaving a varnish like surface on the rock." The evidence here is pretty thin (ha!), but interesting.

Jesda Gulati wrote in to plug his Linux based iMac Rival. It's from Infinital Spacial Technologies and it's called the Infinital One. It costs more ($1500) but it has an LCD screen, it weighs less and is smaller than the iMac. I'm not quite sure why, but the press release says you have to add $10 for Linux, but Win98 is free. Has ethernet, PCMCIA, USB etc. It's also better looking than the iMac, although it's a P233 so I suspect a LinuxPPC iMac will outperform it. I still want one. one.