Your Theme Song today

[Night Wing]

I am going to make a "2 for 1" post. One subject and a song. Unfortunately, this is going to be a long post.

I needed (and wanted) a new "mid tower" computer case. All of my business desktop towers, the space inside is a little "cramped". I needed and wanted a larger mid tower case, but the only options were "gaming" cases. Even though I do no gaming, I liked the larger mid size gaming cases.

I did a lot of research on mid tower gaming cases on YouTube. Since I am a detailed oriented person, I wanted a detailed review of a gaming case which showed the pros and cons of the case. Most reviews are short and mostly generalities.

Once case met my criteria. It is a Montech case. Specifically a Montech Air 903 Max. This case came with four, 140 mm fans and a fan hub. The price for this case was $89 (US) on Amazon with a two day delivery. The Montech Air 903 Base was $79 (US) on Amazon; but it only came with two 140 mm fans, one 120 mm fan and no fan hub. The "Max" was the better buy.

The video below is a "long" thirty-seven minute detailed review of this model. If you are not interested in seeing this video, you might want to skip this video and go right to the "song" at the end of this post.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTUa0lhoJLQ

When the case arrived, it was packed really well. No damage. I put it together by using most of the hardware from my old HP business mid tower. The only changes I made was an "older/newer" much larger AMD graphics card and I also added more memory to boost it up to 64 GB. One last item, since the fans were RGB, I turned off the lights in the fans.

BTW; I ran across another video of the "Base" model, which is not the one I chose, but this one shows an actual "build" with the air flow demonstrated by smoke at the end of the video and I wanted to see the air flow. Just remember I am not into gaming so this guy's build is a true desktop gaming rig. If you do not want to see this video either, skip to the end of this post and listen to the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGmr4GrpKtY

Below is the system information for it.

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System:
  Kernel: 6.1.0-38-amd64 [6.1.147-1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-38-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.20.0 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.38 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm v: 4.20.0 vt: 7
    dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: MX-23.6_x64 Libretto September 15  2024 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12
    (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: MAG B660M MORTAR WIFI DDR4 (MS-7D42) v: 1.0
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: 1.M0 date: 04/17/2025
CPU:
  Info: model: 12th Gen Intel Core i7-12700K bits: 64 type: MST AMCP arch: Alder Lake gen: core 12
    level: v3 note: check built: 2021+ process: Intel 7 (10nm ESF) family: 6 model-id: 0x97 (151)
    stepping: 2 microcode: 0x3A
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 12 mt: 8 tpc: 2 st: 4 threads: 20 smt: enabled cache: L1: 1024 KiB
    desc: d-4x32 KiB, 8x48 KiB; i-8x32 KiB, 4x64 KiB L2: 12 MiB desc: 8x1.2 MiB, 1x2 MiB L3: 25 MiB
    desc: 1x25 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4900:5000:3800 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
    governor: powersave cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 9: 800 10: 800
    11: 800 12: 800 13: 800 14: 800 15: 800 16: 800 17: 800 18: 800 19: 800 20: 800
    bogomips: 144383
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: indirect_target_selection status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling mitigation: Clear Register File
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB: conditional; PBRSB-eIBRS: SW
    sequence; BHI: BHI_DIS_S
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsa status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel AlderLake-S GT1 vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: i915 v: kernel ports: active: none
    empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2, HDMI-A-3, HDMI-A-4 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:4680
    class-ID: 0380
  Device-2: AMD Vega 10 XL/XT [Radeon RX 56/64] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: amdgpu v: kernel
    arch: GCN-5 code: Vega process: GF 14nm built: 2017-20 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    ports: active: HDMI-A-5 empty: DP-3,DP-4,DP-5 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:687f class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 compositor: xfwm v: 4.20.0 driver: X:
    loaded: amdgpu,modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0.0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 509x286mm (20.04x11.26") s-diag: 584mm (22.99")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-5 mapped: HDMI-A-4 model: ViewSonic VX3276-FHD serial: <filter> built: 2022
    res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 70 gamma: 1.2 size: 698x393mm (27.48x15.47") diag: 801mm (31.5")
    ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: AMD Radeon RX Vega (vega10 LLVM 15.0.6 DRM 3.49
    6.1.0-38-amd64) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-S HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    alternate: snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:7ad0 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Vega 10 HDMI Audio [Radeon 56/64] driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3
    speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:aaf8 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-38-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-S PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel modules: wl bus-ID: 00:14.3
    chip-ID: 8086:7af0 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 2
    speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 4000 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8125 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-14:7 chip-ID: 8087:0026
    class-ID: e001
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.2
    sub-v: 356b hci-v: 5.2 rev: 356b
  Info: acl-mtu: 1021:4 sco-mtu: 96:6 link-policy: rswitch sniff link-mode: peripheral accept
    service-classes: rendering, capturing, audio, telephony
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 912.89 GiB used: 18.22 GiB (2.0%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 870 EVO 500GB size: 465.76 GiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 2B6Q
    scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: SanDisk model: SSD PLUS 480GB size: 447.13 GiB block-size:
    physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 04RL scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 446.88 GiB size: 438.79 GiB (98.19%) used: 18.21 GiB (4.2%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%) used: 274 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 6 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swap/swap
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 39.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 44.0 C mem: 47.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 681
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2395 libs: 1260 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala,synaptic pm: rpm
    pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/mxlinux/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
Info:
  Processes: 367 Uptime: 4h 36m wakeups: 1 Memory: 62.52 GiB used: 2.81 GiB (4.5%) Init: SysVinit
  v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12
  Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: UEFI

And while I was assembling this new mid tower computer, I was listening to some of my old songs in my song library. This song below caught my ear.

Soul Asylum - "Runaway Train".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXNt2X889j0

[Night Wing]

While I was helping someone in the Browser Support forum concerning Pale Moon with linux earlier today, I was listening to some music. One of the songs I was listening to while I was typing the post, this song was playing in the background. So it will be my theme song of the day.

Erasure - "A Little Respect" (with lyrics).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSTVwmangqo

[Night Wing]

My retired friend from the Maritime industry who I worked with many years ago, sent me a surfing video. My friends is Japanese and he lives in Japan. He took up surfing after being around me.

He told me the waves in Japan where he surfs are small waves. One thing about small waves. They are constant one does not have to wait for a waves to surf (ride). The waves in the video look a lot like the waves down at Surfside Beach on the upper Texas coast where I occasionally surf, but most of my surfing is at Quintana Beach.

Still, small waves are fun to surf (ride) and small waves give a high wave count for riding as long as one is riding a prone surfing longboard with a minimum of nine feet in length.

The surfing video had two background songs in it. I recognized the first song, but I have no idea about the who sings the second song. The first song was sung by Michael Shynes. Since I liked the first song, it will be my theme song for the day.

Michael Shynes - "Night Of The Flood".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIfpE_GQxYo

But if you want to hear the song "without" seeing the surfing video, which is over six minutes in length, click on the second link below just for the song.

Michael Shynes - "Night Of The Flood".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I13SCrlesqg

[Night Wing]

Thought I would choose an oldie for my theme song of the day. But first, a little history.

A black couple (man & wife) came into our computer shop looking for information on a mid tower desktop computer case they wanted to buy. They were in luck since my mid tower Montech Air 903 Max was in the shop.

After looking over my Montech, the black gentleman asked if I knew any songs by some black groups back in 1973. I rattled off a few which he liked. The black woman asked if I knew the Isley Brothers band and I said I did. I told her I had some songs from this band in my music library.

They asked if I could play one song from this group. Just from the way they looked at each other, I knew they had been married for many years. I asked them if I could ask them a personal question. The said they had no problems with that. I asked them how long had they been married?

They said they married in 1973 so they had been married for 53 years. The woman told me she did not like her future husband back in 1972, but somehow he had "grown" on her by the little things he had done for her and she soon realized she had met her "soul mate". They began dating and were married one year after they had met.

She told me she had played a little "hard to get", but she was glad she didn't scare him away. I told her I have a song for them. And that song is below, vintage 1973.

The Eisley Brothers - Who's That Lady".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0ROfKLmy2w

BTW, they ordered from the shop a Montech Air 903 Max like mine.

[Night Wing]

Today I was doing some backups on my desktop computer and I was in the mood for a song with a grundgy guitar sound in it. I chose this one below.

Collective Soul - "Shine".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuB1A2VJ3-k

[Night Wing]

I was down at the computer repair shop working late last night and got home close to 9:00 PM. My wife was watching TV and she had a program on called, "Sheriff Country". I liked the show, but what caught my ear was a background song in it. The song sounded "dark and cold" with some good lyrics.

Maren Morris - "Beat The Devil" (with lyrics).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqm318j6_LA

[Night Wing]

I've been busy down at the computer repair shop today. Since I was in the back room of the shop, while I was working I decided to listen to some southern rock music. The song below will be my theme song of the day.

Alannah Myles - "Black Velvet" (with lyrics).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QrSdSr0Q7g

[Ron_S]

Today I was doing some backups on my desktop computer and I was in the mood for a song with a grundgy guitar sound in it. I chose this one below.

Collective Soul - "Shine".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuB1A2VJ3-k

Great song, performed by a very underrated band.
Quite high up on my own list of great bands though.

And another ripper by them, 'The World I know'...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7TLTjq ... rt_radio=1