Chad's Blog

Month: August 2018

  • For Sale: Cremona SV-150 Premier Student Violin Outfit – 1/2 Size

    2019-1217   Sold

    2018-0828    For Sale: $150

    Lightly used and good student level violin. Purchased new through Amazon.com. It is listed for $263 on Amazon Cremona SV-150 Premier Student Violin Outfit – 1/2 Size.

    Description from Amazon.com: The Cremona SV-150 1/2 violin outfit is a fine example of an instrument who’s value and quality far surpase its price tag and meet the specific needs of beginning and advancing students. Completeley hand-carved from select solid woods and combined with the new TL-33 Travelite case for durable, yet lightweight protection and a LB-15 Brazilwood bow by J. LaSalle, makes this already perfect outfit one of the best available at this price point!

    It is 1/2 size violin for an arm length (neck to palm) of 20 3/8 – 22 1/4. It has upgraded strings and 2 packs of brand new replacement strings.  The case has a broken zipper but still closes with a button flap. Brand new cases range from $30-38.

  • Mythtv update trouble shooting for database username, hostname, and password

    My mythtv was failing on an update for “no password” for “root” user. I needed to find out what values the update script was using for the database username, hostname, and password. This link had a script listed to show these values. I will repeat the script below.

    Put the following in a file, mark it as executable and run it.  This will print the variables the mythtv-database upgrade script is using.

    #!/bin/sh -e
    /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
    db_get mythtv/mysql_admin_user
    admin_username=”$RET”
    db_get mythtv/mysql_admin_password
    admin_password=”$RET”
    db_get mythtv/mysql_host
    hostname=”$RET”
    if test -z “$hostname”; then
    hostname=localhost
    fi
    db_get mythtv/mysql_mythtv_dbname
    database=”$RET”
    echo “MythTV database upgrade variables (Debian):”
    echo ” Username: $admin_username”
    echo ” Password: $admin_password”
    echo ” Hostname: $hostname”
    echo ” Database: $database”