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Web Server

Did you know that both Serendipity Blackmagic, Serendipity Megarip and Veripress have a built-in Web Server? This allows you to access the information about the server and the jobs processing from your own web browser providing you have a network … Continue reading

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Crash Logs on Mac OS X

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

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

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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Mac OS X Lion / Mountain Lion excessive Dock CPU usage

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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