Dynamically updated details about the current hardware and software are listed at the bottom of this page.
This is a hobby for me and I am not an IT professional, Unix wizard, or web site professional in any way. The result is a website a little out of date technologically running on a server which is way out of date. Getting the site back up in 2025, such as getting DDNS working, finding all the old site resources (such as graphics files) and finding some kind of HTML composer has been challenging. However I like tinkering with the code so this is the result.
As of 11/2025 this site is temporarily (I hope) running on a 1999 PowerMac G4 running OS X 10.4 and running Apache. This is the same OS and web server as the PM8500. Why this old hardware...well, this IS a legacy Mac hardware site.
This site is being served from a PowerPC RISK based Apple Power Macintosh running Apple OS X 10.4.x (a freeBSD derived UNIX). OS X as installed is the standard Client version and not the full Server version, as available at when 10.4.x was the current version.
OS X Client and
Server are fundamentally the same OS with the same
functionality (with some notable exceptions). The main
difference is OS X Server's inclusion of good GUI setup
and administration tools for server functions whereas
the client version has either limited GUI controls
appropriate for normal end users, or no GUI interface at
all. However the functionality is generally fully
present. It just requires configuration and management
via the Unix command line. Unlike XP the user and
permissions system is completely intact in the Client
OS.
Mac OS is no
longer released in a server version.The web server is Apache v1.3.
The site is currently being served from the PowerMac G4 via AT&T domestic fiber via the G4's built-in RJ-45 Ethernet port,
When being served from the PM8500 that server normally networks either via a 10/100 NIC PCI card (by Asante) or wirelessly using a Motorola 802.11g PCI card.
All URLs are DDNS based and provided by either DynDNS or Cloudflare (I am still working that out).
The site was original created using Microsoft Word:Mac v.X when I was not considering making real site at that time and then was completely transitioned to Nvu. Nvu was then used to make all new content until January 2007 when the site started a transition to DreamWeaver 8 with heavier use of CSS. That transition was never completed and Dreamweaver is hard to get working in 2025 do to a lack of the original servers to authenticate the SN.
Now since late 2025 I am using Composer from Seamonkey (essentially the newest version of Nvu). This allows me to compose the site using a modern Apple silicon system with spell checking.
The visit counters and Guestbook are PERL based CGIs hosted on this server. No services are hosted remotely.
Credit and Source for CGIs
The basic visit counters for most of the site from its inception were from the collection at http://www.ascadnetworks.com/cgi/. The new site-wide counter in place since the site was re-activated in late 2025 is mine, a continuation of a 2007 effort.
The guest book was from a collection on the Stanbeck.net site at http://www.stanback.net. It is slightly modified.
Unfortunately both of those links appear to be dead.
The technical status CGI at the bottom of this page is mine and dates from 2005 (although I did update it slightly). It is part of a slow push to learn a little more about CGIs and Perl.
The Sorta-Disclaimer...
If you find any links or content that you feel violates your intellectual property or inappropriately accesses your site please let me know. That should be unlikely since almost all (if not all) content on this site is original content created by me.
If you have an interesting, even if only you think it is interesting, hobby site please send me the link.
The Sliced Apple site has NO ADVERTISING. It is a hobby site and nothing more. If you are seeing adds they are not coming from here.
Also I am a private individual and I DO NOT harvest email addresses and spam people, sell the email addresses for spamming people, or anything of the kind. If you send me an email and I don't respond that means only I could not pick your email out of my clutter of spam. Just put Sliced Apple in the subject and I will catch it, or use the link on the index page (provides a non-subtle title).
(Don't put words like pron, lick, slick, wet, weet, nutity (or variation), smell, look, check this out, hey handsome, or ANY female name in the title, especially one ending in "i", or I probably WILL be convinced it is porn and never look at it.)
A brief site history
Current Web Server Profile as of Wed Apr 15 09:13:58 CDT 2026
Hardware: Hardware Overview: Machine Name: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics) Machine Model: PowerMac3,1 CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (3.3) Number Of CPUs: 1 CPU Speed: 1 GHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB L3 Cache (per CPU): 2 MB Memory: 800 MB Bus Speed: 100 MHz Boot ROM Version: 4.2.8f1Software: System Software Overview: System Version: Mac OS X 10.4.11 (8S165) Kernel Version: Darwin 8.11.0 Uptime 71 days, 13:07, 1 user HTTP Server: Server version: Apache/1.3.41 (Darwin)Server built: Feb 22 2008 09:40:00 |
