echo `ps auxf | grep -v grep | grep "$exec -d $options" | awk '{print $2}'` > /var/run/beanstalkd.pid

I have no idea what all those grep and awk exactly mean. ^_^x But the effect is it creates the pid file in /var/run/beanstalkd.pid containing the correct process id of beanstalkd. You could then have monit watch that pid file.

Here’s the whole modified script. And this is my main reference: http://gist.github.com/508889. A huge thanks to him (Sam X).

PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function curl_init() in D:\Shiki\github\yii-clockwerk\test-app\CurlHelper.php on line 90
Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in D:\Shiki\github\yii-clockwerk\test-app\CurlHelper.php on line 90

It (cURL) works in the browser but not when in console. I didn’t think that it was this simple to fix. The PHP CLI uses a different config file (php.ini) compared to the one used by WampServer/Apache. You can see the location of the config file being used by typing:

php --ini

Result:

Configuration File (php.ini) Path: C:\Windows
Loaded Configuration File:         C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.0\php.ini
Scan for additional .ini files in: (none)
Additional .ini files parsed:      (none)

You can then fix the curl problem by enabling it in the php.ini file being used. Make sure this is not commented out:

extension=php_curl.dll

Ignoring funny ref 'refs/remotes/origin/master (Shiki's conflicted copy 2010-01-14)' locally

It seems to happen when 2 people push to origin/master at almost the same time. This makes Dropbox update the same file and seems to be the cause of the error. When this happens, you can bet that one of the people who did the push will lose his changes to origin/master. So you’ll have to fix it accordingly.

The “funny ref” error does not have any critical effect on the repo and Git seems to work perfectly. It will just annoy you every time you try to fetch. It turns out that this "master (Shiki's conflicted copy 2010-01-14)" is a branch in the main repo. Simply deleting it will remove the error. In terminal, go to your main repo’s (Dropbox) root folder:

git branch -d "master (Shiki's conflicted copy 2010-01-14)"

If you’re not sure of the name of the conflicting branch, you can execute git branch to show all branches. There should at least be a “master” branch and your conflicting branch.

Yeah so I’m a little late on this. Primarily because I’m no designer and I don’t use Photoshop that much. But I just found out that the Extract filter has been removed from CS4. Or maybe CS3 too? I didn’t notice until I needed to use it at work today where I just had to take out some cats and dogs out of their backgrounds.

So, with some googling I found this article by John Nack. There he explains why they took Extract and other filters/plugins away. I still wish they retained Extract though, it’s kinda useful for us noob Photoshop users :p Thankfully you can still install the missing features. Just follow these steps:

1. Download the plugins package. Download here for Mac, and here for Windows.
2. In the package you should find 3 language folders. Open the one you need (ie English) and copy the child folder named Goodies and paste it somewhere safe like the Photoshop application folder. That’s /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Mac and somewhere in C:/Program Files/ for Windows (sorry I can’t be too precise).
3. Open Photoshop. Go to Preferences > Plug-Ins. Find a setting named Additional Plug-Ins Folder and set that to the Goodies folder.
4. Restart Photoshop.

That should do it.