[Noisebridge-discuss] Need help painting a bikeshed

[Dr. Jesus]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:09:28AM -0800, Josh Myer wrote:
>> Any suggestions on how to add a layer of indirection there, without having
>> to create a new URL for each entry?
>
> That seems pretty easy to do programmatically...
>
>> I thought about
>> nburl.net/parts/${PARTNO} (if I could convince Al to special-case me),
>
> That seems entirely cromulent to me!  In fact why not just make it
> nburl.net/uln2003
> and inject entries into nburl.net for every part?
>
> (I hope the front page transclude has some sane limiting...)
>
>> but I'm a little nervous about nburl.net not being a proper
>> noisebridge service.
>
> lulzwut.  There ain't no such thing as a "proper noisebridge service",
> nburl.net is as proper as anything else.  (Nobody ever asked AFAIK, we
> could easily have it at url.noisebridge.net but the shorter TLD is
> nice.  Also, alas, noisebrid.ge is hard to register unless you're
> physically in Georgia.)
>
> I suppose it'd be nice if we could do some backups of the nburl.net
> database, especially if it's going to have nontrivial elbow grease
> applied, but that's orthogonal...

The other ops guy at the east bay hacker space and I are splitting
backup duties to facilities in Texas, Sweden, and Mountain View.  If
anyone else running "proper noisebridge services" wants their stuff
backed up we can add it to the list.