For quite a while I've been having an issue where Nagstamon opens twice on my Fedora laptop ( edit: also just had this problem on my Gentoo desktop ) when I login. I've finally gotten around to investigating it properly and found the cause and a solution.

First of all - the problem: I have Nagstamon set to run on login …

A while ago I finally managed to acquire a Mac Mini G4 1.5ghz "silent upgrade" to run MorphOS on.

After upgrading the RAM to a full 1GB, replacing the dead hard disk with an SSD (affiliate link) (via an IDE to MSATA adapter (affiliate link)) I've now decided to get a game controller for it instead of …

CUPS Cloud Print is now unsupported after not being updated for some time. Google Cloud Print itself will also be deprecated in December 2020 and you should migrate to an alternative.

See Google for more information.

A new release for Mac OS X is now available ( version 20160521 ) which fixes issues preventing CUPS Cloud Print from working on Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11).

These were only changes relevant to the Mac OS X package, so there are no Linux packages for this release.

Installation instructions, as always are here.

Google have apparently recently discontinued the ‘legacy’ capabilities function of the Google Cloud Print API.

Unfortunately CUPS Cloud Print relied on this, so has been broken for most users. I’ve now updated CUPS Cloud Print to use the new ‘CDD’ ( Cloud Device Description ) feature, and printing with this new version …

A new release for Mac OS X is now available ( version 20140814.3 ) which fixes issues preventing CUPS Cloud Print from working on Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10).

These were only changes relevant to the Mac OS X package, so there are no Linux packages for this release.

Installation instructions, as always are here.

OpenSUSE developers have recently been conducting a secutity audit of CUPS Cloud Print as a precurser to including the software in their default repositories. As a result of this audit, they have discovered a few potential vulnerabilities, which this release ( version 20140814.2 ) fixes.

This upgrade should be rolling …

I’ve released a new package for Arch Linux that changes the dependency for the ‘pycups’ package to ‘python2-pycups’. This should fix an issue preventing Arch Linux users from upgrading their systems. Thanks to ZombieLinux for reporting the problem in the comments.

Due to a change to default options on Google Cloud Print ( which prevented printing with CUPS Cloud Print – see here ) I’ve had to do a quick release today, version 20140814 is now rolled out to all my repositories.

Until you have upgraded to CUPS Cloud Print version 20140814 you will be unable to print.

Just a quick post – previously the package repositories used for CUPS Cloud Print didn’t have SSL enabled ( the packages have been signed for a while, but this is some extra security which I feel is useful to add ), but I’ve now purchased an SSL certificate and enabled it on the niftyrepo.niftiestsoftware.com domain – …