The HTML tax (in Python, and in general)
The HTML tax is my name for all of those bits of verbosity that you haveto include when you write straight HTML, as opposed to something morecompact . What do I mean by that? Well, considerall of the things that you need for a well formed, standards compliantbasic HTML web page these days.
A relatively minimal page needs a doctype, a section witha and ideally a declaration for the charset, andthen the boilerplate of the
The NFS re-export problem
One of the things that people traditionally ask for is an NFSserver that can re-export its own NFS mounts (possibly among otherthings). Unfortunately this is impossible in general, and now I canexplain why.
(In the old days, one reason people wanted this was because user levelNFS servers were basically the only way to do user level filesystemsat all, and it would be useful if your machine could transparentlyre-export your interesting user level filesystem to other machines. I'mnot sure