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Building Targoman without patronage
An eight-year account of turning a Persian machine-translation research project into a public service—through changing paradigms, difficult contracts, scarce infrastructure and no privileged connections. Read article →Published 4 January 2013 · 5 min read
Apache “No space left on device” and mod_jk_log_lock
A troubleshooting record in which Apache reported a full device despite ample disk space; the actual limit was an accumulation of System V semaphore locks left behind by failed restarts. Read article →Published 12 September 2012 · 3 min read
Accessing legacy Numenta content
A short historical note about the disappearance of early Numenta and NuPIC documentation, and the practical role the Internet Archive played when official legacy URLs stopped working. Read article →Published 29 September 2011 · 3 min read
Making a software RAID array persistent on openSUSE
A compact historical recipe for creating an mdadm array, recording its identity in mdadm.conf, formatting it, enabling assembly at boot and mounting it consistently through fstab. Read article →Published 26 February 2011 · 7 min read
Language identification — a 2011 reading list
A restored research bibliography from the development of an early language-detection tool, covering n-gram ranking, Markov processes, string kernels, short-text identification, speech and multilingual web collections. Read article →Published 23 February 2011 · 5 min read
Installing TBS6980 and TBS6981 cards on Linux
A restored field guide to compiling the vendor driver, linking the correct architecture-specific objects, raising the DVB adapter limit, installing firmware and verifying multiple TBS6980/TBS6981 DVB-S/S2 cards. Read article →Published 6 February 2011 · 8 min read
Installing DGTechnics Smart HDTV/FM on Linux
A restored installation record for a low-cost TM6010-based USB capture device, covering the experimental Video4Linux driver, XC3028 firmware extraction, kernel diagnostics and a working MPlayer capture command. Read article →Published 4 February 2011 · 6 min read
Hierarchical Temporal Memory — papers and books
A restored bibliography assembled while studying whether Hierarchical Temporal Memory could model how children learn a second language, spanning the memory-prediction framework, NuPIC and early HTM applications. Read article →Published 4 February 2011 · 4 min read