Crash Logs on Mac OS X

Posted on July 15, 2013 by jason

If you are running Serendipity Blackmagic/Megarip/Veripress Server or Client on Mac OS X and either of them crash, then it is very useful to get the crash log from the Mac for the application that had the problem. This can … Continue reading →

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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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Pagesetup Pool Decision Algorithm

Posted on July 11, 2013 by jason

When does the Pagesetup Pool decide which Pagesetup the job will process on ? As the job is about to start Imaging, the server inspects the pagesetup pool configuration and the current job queue. It then assigns an appropriate pagesetup … 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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