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Finding the Dongle Serial Number

Posted on July 15, 2013 by jason

All Serendipity software packages require a hardware USB dongle for the Server to run. The dongle’s serial number is printed on the dongle label. However, the dongle will quite often be plugged into a hard to get to USB port, … Continue reading →

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Running Serendipity Blackmagic/Megarip/Veripress as a Windows background service

Posted on July 15, 2013 by jason

In some cases, system administrators may wish to run the Serendipity Blackmagic/Megarip/Veripress Server as background service on Windows. This may be for security reasons or to prevent accidental shutdown of the server by users. The Windows Task Scheduler is used to … Continue reading →

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The Origin of Serendipity

Posted on July 10, 2013 by jason

The word “serendipity” was coined in 1754 by the politician and writer Horace Walpole, who used it in a letter in which he recounted an accidental but fortunate discovery about an acquaintance: This discovery indeed is almost of that kind … Continue reading →

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Mac OS X Lion / Mountain Lion excessive Dock CPU usage

Posted on April 2, 2013 by jason

Some users running on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.x or Mountain Lion 10.8.x may encounter an operating system “spinning beach ball” hang lasting several minutes when deleting 1000+ jobs from the Queuemanager. During this time the Dock will be unresponsive … Continue reading →

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Using a Solid State Drive (SSD) for Working Paths

Posted on March 8, 2013 by jason

Working Paths are the folders used by the Blackmagic / Megarip / Veripress Server to store and process jobs. There are four paths:- Raster – holds all the imaged and rendered previews, jobs and print files while they are live … Continue reading →

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