Recently I have purchased a new MacBook Pro 15″ and the first thing I do was install Ubuntu Lucid Lynx on it. After some readying I have all the hardware working properly but the keyboard backlight wasn’t integrated into system and unfortunately after searching on the web for something that could do this, I decide to write a simple script with Bash and use Ubuntu-tweak to bind the keyboard keys to invoke the script. So let’s go…

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The big problem of use Google Analytics is that you have to get its javascript to get to work statistics. For me this causes that my sites takes a lot of time to end the load. For this reason I always recommend put the GAnalytics code at the bottom of the page, but for me this is not enought.

One solution to this is to cache the external javascript locally but what if the external javascript changes? Here I go to explain how to store GAnalytics javascript locally and peridiocally check that is the lastest version.
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If you use memcached to cache contents among different servers and apps, and you want to get statistics for what is happening inside the memcached-sever you can use one of the available interfaces for programming languages but there are simpler ways to do that. The best way is use the command line because the simple protocol that memcached has.
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