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March 6th, 2010 | 
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Google Maps not working in FF3
I installed FireFox 3 on their launch day. It seemed ever since then Google Maps would not work in FIreFox for me. It would just hang, “Loading…”.
Well it turns out it wasn’t FF3 but in fact a Skype number highlighting add-on that was the culprit. I uninstalled the Skype add-on and voila, Google Maps work again!
The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80070020)
All of my websites on IIS7 were stopped. Whenever I tried to start any of them I would get the exception:
”The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80070020)”
After doing some googleing I found that it was a problem with Skype. When it iwas loading on boot up it was taking port 80 before IIS could.
So I just quit Skype freeing up port 80. This allowed me to start my websites in IIS. I then restarted Skype which was smart enough to take a different port since 80 was already taken.
Hopefully this helps someone else.
Skype
Today I decided to get a land line. After too many dropped calls and complaints of cutting out I decided it was time.
I called Charter and got everything lined up.
Chatting with @scaleovenstove he suggested I try Skype out. It’s free so I figured it couldn’t hurt. We both downloaded the client and gave it a shot.
He called me up first on my cell phone. I couldn’t even tell he was on anything different than a normal phone.
I then called him skype to skype. We talked for about 20 minutes and the sound was great. It was really easy to use and since he had a webcam I could even see him. The only thing I had to do was turn my IM sounds off, he could here them going off.
It all worked great though and I think I am going to go with them instead. Now I am going to look into getting a Skpe enabled phone that runs over wifi. I’ll post details later.
What does your office look like?
A cool site Where We Do What We Do, takes photo submissions of peoples work place. Here’s my office.
I wish mine looked like this.
Firefox 3
FireFox 3 is coming out next month in June. They’re going to have a “Download Day” to try and set a record for the most downloads in one day. I encourage everyone to take part in this. Or, at least start using this browser especially if you are currently using IE6. For the love of God, upgrade to anything better than IE6!
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/
