Tau

The above page is from a book I have from 1945 called "The Wonders of Science." Below the picture it reads: What surprised me so much was not that they had the 4 million years ago completely wrong, but that it was from 1945. Maybe 100 years prior I would have expected such a far off measurement, but this was less 60 years ago. The page got me thinking about what we are taught today in school about science and the natural world; how things are. If 60 years ago they were teaching children that dinosaurs were alive 4 million years ago, what parallels are there today? What are we being taught that is completely and utterly wrong? Of course, we will not know until the truth, or revised truth, is discovered, maybe 20, 50, 200 years from now. What I'm curious to know from those of you reading this is what you think scientists will discover in the future that will belie our current understanding of how things are?

A while ago my friend sent me a link to what was known as the boobies script. It was a picture of a topless girl holding a piece of paper that said "I love" and then text the user submitted himself. The writing looked as if it was a real picture, and it was quite popular. I havent been able to find any working ones on the web, but I did find a site that explains how to set one up (none are available because it became so popular that it used too much bandwidth). The site that explains how to do it is: http://www.xs4all.nl/~slagers/boobies/ I want to set it up on my site, but the directions on this site are minimal. Check out the site, and if you are knowledgeable in this area, I would appreciate some help setting it up. Thanks, Tau

Thanks anyway Dudde

I got it, hot damn. I messed around with different paths, etc and it finally worked. Thanks man.

Ok, progress. I went to the host's web site and it says on there that I can just place the CGI files in any directory. So I just stuck it all in the guestbook folder, along with a cgi file mentioned in the guestbook.pl file called cgi-lib.pl. I updated that on the index.html, blah blah, chmod 755 the guestbook.pl file and now it gives me this error: Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@~.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. So I am pretty sure something is misconfigured in the section that has all the paths because I have absolutely no idea how to configure it. Any idea blike? Btw, thanks for helping.

Niet, no no no. No difference. On another note, I made a cgo-bin directory, and that worked fine. The host must have some sort of restrictions on a folder with the name of cgi-bin. Is it possible that they dont support it?

I've been testing different files in that same cgi-bin folder and none of them are recognized. Everything else on the site works fine, but even if i upload pictures into the cgi-bin directory, it doesnt recognize any of them. I was thinking maybe the chmod should be different, so I changed it all to 777. That didnt work, so I just deleted the folder and remade it, same problem. What the hell is going on?

Nope. As far as anything is concerned, it doesnt exist. I can see via an FTP Browser though.

Same error message: Not Found The requested URL /cgi-bin/guestbook.pl was not found on this server.

When I try to submit something using the form it takes me to a page that says: Not Found The requested URL /cgi-bin/guestbook.pl was not found on this server.

I'm trying to set up a guestbook on my site. I'm copying the same files that I set up on the aol-files.com guestbook. I'm not too knowledgable about CGI though, so its not working out too well. Here is what I have set up: When I login with ws_ftp i go to the main folder it has the folders .session logs web in web, i have my index.html, etc. so i made two folders in there. guestbook - which has all the guestbook files and cgi-bin - i just stuck my guestbook.pl in there in the guestbook folder, i have my main guestbook file, that includes the line ...action="../cgi-bin/guestbook.pl" method="POST" which should take it to the guestbook.pl, right? Guess not, because it says the file isnt found. other issues... chmod? what do i chmod and why? also, in the guestbook.pl file, what do i change all these to and what do they mean? # Absolute path to the cgi-lib library. $cgilib = "www.~.com/web/cgi-bin/cgi-lib.pl"; # This user will be directed to this page after the post is sent. $thanks = "http://www.~.com/guestbook/index.html"; # $mailprog is the path to the mail program on your server. $mailprog = "/bin/mail"; # Path to the file that will be placed at the top of the guestbook. $top = "www.~.com/web/guestbook/gb-top.html"; # Path to the file that will be placed at the bottom of the guestbook. $bottom = "www.~.com/web/guestbook/gb-bottom.html"; # Absolute path to the HTML file in which the guestbook will be # created. $main_book = "www.~.com/web/guestbook/index.html"; # Absolute path to the database file in which the guestbook entries # will reside. $main_db = "www.~.com/web/guestbook/gb.db"; i would greatly appreciate help from anyone knowledgable in this area. thanks, matt

What aspects of the natural world are there that we cannot explain scientifically? What dont humans know?

Questions about the Darwinian theory of evolution fill my mind constantly. There is no question in my mind about Creationism -- I think it is utterly wrong. I accept the evolutionary theory, however, I cant help but feel that we are missing some important aspect of it. Whether this aspect is discovered in a year, twenty years, or five hundred years, I believe it is important and it is out there and we are to find it. My question here is simple. Take a look at da Vinci's human proportions drawing: I find it amazing that we are so proportional and how we fit so perfectly inside the circle and the square. Why would this be an advantage to surviving in nature? I would think that maybe our arms would be bigger, or our legs, but not both, and not both exact (our height equals our arm span, right?). It seems too perfect to me. What other animals display a design such as this? How would it have come to be?