I needed a test avatar for a site I’m working on, and thought, “Hey, I’ll use my pirate picture.” But then I realized it just wasn’t piratey enough. So I wasted spent a bit of time and gimped it up a bit.

Clearly this should be the basis for my new Planet hackergotchi.

As most people have probably seen on Slashdot or Digg by now, we just released VMware Server 1.0. As promised, it is a free product and should run your virtual machines much faster than the earlier betas did.
(If you’re not sure what VMware Server is all about, please read my original post.)
VMware Server has already [...]