Adam Demasi kirb

※ The information in this post is up to date as of VMware Workstation 26H1, 2026/06/23.

Windows Vista SP2

VMware Tools GPU driver issues (WinSAT hang, Aero performance issues)

While VMware Tools 11.0.6 is technically the last version of VMware Tools that is compatible with Vista, all versions of VMware Tools starting from 11.0.0 actually ship with a broken GPU driver that has severe Aero performance issues, completely broken/missing OpenGL acceleration support, and will cause WinSAT to hang forever.

To fix this, we'll have to install VMware Tools 11.0.6 and then manually downgrade the GPU driver to the last working version (8.16.1.24 built on 2019/02/05), which was shipped with VMware Tools 10.3.10.

Mount the ISO for VMware Tools 11.0.6 and install it normally.
Reboot when prompted to.

ZSH CheatSheet

This is a cheat sheet for how to perform various actions to ZSH, which can be tricky to find on the web as the syntax is not intuitive and it is generally not very well-documented.

Strings

Description	Syntax
Get the length of a string	`${#VARNAME}`
Get a single character	`${VARNAME[index]}`

In Adobe Flash Player versions newer than 32.0.0.344 they added a "Timebomb" for the EOL. the player would refuse to run any custom flash content after 12/01/2021, instead it would just show this

So knowing this, Lets crack it!

I acturally started looking into this before the 12/01/2021 hit, but only recently did i acturally discover a way to bypass the killswitch

(also- im aware this is not the only way to do this, i might not have been first, but i still did do it)

Xcode Wish List:

Legacy Support

Additional optional downloads:
- Older SDKs, eg, for building ancient projects.
- Older compilers (for same).
Either ship gcc/llvm-gcc or don't. Don't ship clang and call it 'gcc', that just breaks anyone who actually needs GCC and finds your not-gcc in the PATH.

UX

Project/File Navigation

Add this to /etc/profile:

alias syslog="socat - UNIX-CONNECT:/var/run/lockdown/syslog.sock"

Install socat from Cydia if you haven't already, run . /etc/profile to re-read the script and then you can type:

~$ syslog
ASL is here to serve you
> watch

Tools > New Plugin
Paste code_folding.py
Add key binding at Sublime Text 2 > Preferences > Key Bindings - User
Restart sublime

Hashtag abuse

Three or more hashtags.

#[^#]+#[^#]+#

Long hashtags (15+ characters): #hashtagpunchline

	#! /bin/bash

	mkdir -p ./backgrounds


	function get_google_device_art {
	local device=$1
	# Get the Google Device backgrounds
	curl "https://developer.android.com/distribute/marketing-tools/device-art-resources/$1/port_back.png" > "./backgrounds/$1_port_back.png"
	curl "https://developer.android.com/distribute/marketing-tools/device-art-resources/$1/port_fore.png" > "./backgrounds/$1_port_fore.png"

	#
	# UPDATE for 10.10.4+: please consider this patch obsolete, as apple provides a tool called "trimforce" to enable trim support for 3rd party SSDs
	# just run "sudo trimforce enable" to activate the trim support from now on!
	#
	# Original version by Grant Parnell is offline (http://digitaldj.net/2011/07/21/trim-enabler-for-lion/)
	# Update July 2014: no longer offline, see https://digitaldj.net/blog/2011/11/17/trim-enabler-for-os-x-lion-mountain-lion-mavericks/
	#
	# Looks for "Apple" string in HD kext, changes it to a wildcard match for anything
	#
	# Alternative to http://www.groths.org/trim-enabler-3-0-released/

	# Xcode 4.3.3
	Apple clang version 3.1 (tags/Apple/clang-318.0.61) (based on LLVM 3.1svn)
	Target: x86_64-apple-darwin11.4.0
	Thread model: posix

	# Xcode 4.3.2
	Apple clang version 3.1 (tags/Apple/clang-318.0.58) (based on LLVM 3.1svn)
	Target: x86_64-apple-darwin11.4.0
	Thread model: posix