One of our customers needed to show me one of their internal reporting systems so we could build something similar in a Jotspot Wiki app we are building for them. He said he wanted to share his desktop and he asked for my Skype account (scott.m.johnston for anybody who needs it). Turns the Skype client supports sharing your desktop. Who knew? Not me. I can’t keep up with this stuff, but I’m excited to find free desktop sharing.

One note thought, I just went to fire up my Apache server and it was failing on the classic “could not bind to address.” This kind of freaked me out because I’m pretty careful about this and know nothing but apache should be binding to 80. Anyway, Netstat told me Skype was the offending process. A little digging:

Options… -> Connection -> uncheck Use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for incoming connections

Seems a bad idea, doesn’t it? Why would it use the standard HTTP and HTTPS ports as alternatives? Yes, I know, if I using Linux, only root would be able bind to ports under 1280 and I wouldn’t have this problem. Blah, blah, blah.

Nate, can we get this fixed? I now hold you responsible for the entire eBay site as well as the Skype product.

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