Google released a rebranded Android Market yesterday, now named ‘Google Play’, dropping the Android specific name. Same content is still available: apps, music, movies & books. To celebrate the fact there’s bargains on apps and music all this week too.
VirtualBox vdi disk image failed
I’ve had physical drives fail before, but this is a first. I’ve used VirtualBox on and off for years for those times when you need to fire up a guest os and it’s always worked fine, no issues. I just installed Fedora 16 on a new virtual drive image and on the first reboot after installing the VM crashed. After that point VirtualBox wouldn’t boot it any more saying the vdi headers were corrupt.
Wow, ok. Other than messing with headers physically in the image file, it appears there’s no repair options or tools. This is the first time I’ve seen this, so giving it the benefit of the doubt, I downloaded the latest version, 4.1.8, created a new vm and new disk image, and I’m installing again.
Random Oracle notes – creating a user and granting privileges
As a developer I normally get to work with Oracle in a db that’s already been set up, my user is set up with the correct permissions etc. I’ve been working with Oracle Express installed on my own machine, and had to do a few basic steps to get up and running.
Log on as system to create new users and grant privs:
sqlplus system/yourpassword create user youruser identified by yourpassword; grant connect to youruser; grant resource to youruser; -- grants a bunch of normal privs, select, insert, delete etc
Logon as sysdba to grant execute on DBMS_SESSION:
sqlplus system/yourpassword as sysdba grant execute on DBMS_SESSION to youruser;
Installing Java on OS X Lion
I’m sure there’s plenty of posts about this already, but I just upgraded to Mac OS X Lion today and it seems Java is not preinstalled. When you first attempt to launch a Java app though, Software Update launches and downloads a Java 6 JVM for you. Very nice.