Hashima Island (meaning “Border Island”), commonly called Gunkanjima (meaning “Battleship Island”) is one among 505 uninhabited islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture about 15 kilometers from Nagasaki itself. The island was populated from 1887 to 1974 as a coal mining facility. The island’s most notable features are the abandoned concrete buildings and the sea wall surrounding it.

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Quoted from detikinet » ‘kalau Ke Open Source Hari Ini, Pemerintahan Tidak Jalan’

Jakarta, Menteri Komunikasi dan Informatika Sofyan Djalil mengatakan pemerintah belum bisa beralih ke Open Source sekarang juga. Jika itu dilakukan, aktivitas pemerintahan tidak akan jalan. Hal itu dikemukakannya di hadapan komisi I Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat. “Kalau hari ini komputer pemerintah semuanya di-install Open Source maka aktivitas pemerintahan tidak akan jalan,” ujarnya di Gedung DPR, Jakarta, Senin (15/1/2007). Menurut Sofyan ada tiga alasan hal itu akan terjadi. Pertama, ujar Sofyan, komputer pemerintah perlu di-upgrade sebelum berpindah ke Open Source. “Kedua, kemampuan sumber daya manusia (yang menggunakannya-red) belum memadai,” tuturnya. Sedangkan alasan ketiga Sofyan adalah soal dukungan driver bagi berbagai perangkat pendukung komputer. “Pada sebagian Open Source, misalnya, belum ada menu untuk men-support printer,” ia menambahkan. Namun di kesempatan yang berbeda Sofyan mengatakan pemerintah akan mendukung Open Source. Hal itu, ujarnya, dilakukan untuk jangka menengah dan panjang.

Mohon maaf buat pak Sofyan Djalil, saya jadi penasaran apakah anda betul² tidak mengerti atau anda betul² mengerti tentang open source dan segala kemudahannya, lalu apakah anda mengetahui spesifikasi hardware komputer yang cukup untuk menjalankan software open source?

Free audio editor and VST host

Wavosaur is a powerful free audio editor for Windows XP, ideal for editing audio clips, sound designing, mastering, audio mangling and recording of your digital audio sounds.

Wavosaur lets you edit all your samples and audio recording. You can cut, copy, paste parts of your digital recording. Wavosaur provides many tools and shortcuts to make the editing very fast and efficient. The program was designed to give a powerful audio editor but very easy and fast to use.

Wavosaur is also a VST host, it means you can use VST effects on your audio recording, listen in real time to the audio processed by effects, and apply the effects of course.
You can make a chain of effects, this means endless possibilities with all the VST plugins effects available nowadays.

Wavosaur can record from your soundcard inputs, and lets you monitor your audio ports.
Inserting loop points and markers to your audio files is very easy.
Wavosaur is also MIDI controlable, you can use a MIDI control surface to command the main functions of Wavosaur.