![]() The film as a whole fits into the same framework – The Ides of March may not be anything special, but it’s entirely inoffensive. Maybe he liked the script, or needed a paycheck. In a way, watching the The Ides of March gave me a greater appreciation for Hoffman’s oeuvre: it’s almost refreshing to see him turn in something average when he usually contributes so much more. Honestly, that’s fine too! It would be unreasonable to expect any actor to turn in groundbreaking work every time they take a part. Like the other performers, Hoffman’s just sort of there, saying his lines with varying degrees of intensity. Ripley: Hoffman doesn’t push his supporting part to new heights or reveal what wasn’t on the page. When Stephen appears disloyal, he gets really mad and delivers a big speech or two. Alas, no one – not even Philip Seymour Hoffman – turns in a remarkable or standout performance.Īs the principled Paul, his character wants to win and values loyalty. Even the ever-underrated Jeffrey Wright shows up doing a Jesse Jackson impression. ![]() There are a lot of conventionally-shot people talking in rooms – the most ambitious image lies on the poster.Īlas, no one – not even Philip Seymour Hoffman – turns in a remarkable or standout performance.īut what a cast! The sheer quantity of talented people turning in middle-of-the-road work is a sight to behold. Then again, Clooney never conjures any distinct frames – the closest he comes is a shouting match between Zara and Meyers behind an enormous American flag. Ferrari) pick an old-fashioned, at times over-exposed style that almost reminded me of Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (though that could’ve been because Hoffman again shares the screen with Marisa Tomei). At least it’s competently shot: unlike House of Cards’ slick, clean, digital look, Clooney and cinematographer Phedon Papamichael ( Nebraska, Ford V. Then there’s plenty of scheming and backroom dealing.Īs director, Clooney fails to elevate this material into a memorable story. He flirts with Evan Rachel Wood’s Molly Stearns, who’s here in what passed for a three-dimensional role for a woman nine years ago. As in his (now infamous) Netflix show, Willimon’s interested in the people behind the power, the staffers pulling the strings, the con games of American politics.Īnd so protagonist Stephen takes a meeting with rival campaign manager Tom Duffy ( Paul Giamatti) – as inciting incidents go, they don’t get much duller. Based on the play Farragut North, it turns out this 2011 drama was just a practice run for writer Beau Willimon’s real outing, House of Cards. Or maybe his opponent is a moderate? Who knows! None of the actual politics make much sense, nor do they matter. A dozen hundred delegates deep, Morris – an idealistic progressive as handsome as Clooney – finds himself locked in a tight race against a senator who might be even more to the left. He’s got a crack team behind him, led by campaign manager Paul Zara ( Philip Seymour Hoffman), and top hot-shot consultant Stephen Meyers ( Ryan Gosling). It’s fine!ĭoes The Ides of March take place in 2008 or 2012? Who knows! Whenever it’s set, Governor Mike Morris (Clooney) is running for President – but he’s got to secure the democratic nomination first. Co-written, directed and co-starring George Clooney, this obviously outdated look at American politics finds its groove as middling entertainment. Does anyone remember The Ides of March? I ask in good faith – classy, Oscar-nominated dramas featuring multiple movie stars rarely go so forgotten.
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![]() Koha 3.14.0-beta is a major release, that comes with many new features. OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball Installation instructions can be found at: ![]() Volunteers, and support companies from around the world. Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types and sizes, Koha is the first free and open source software library automation package In particular, I request close attention to some of the features that were merged immediately prior my cutting this beta release - in particular, the serials prediction revamp and the MARC modification templates feature.ĭraft release notes can be found below the fold.
![]() One such hunt led to him crossing paths with Ratchet, whose encounter with Lockdown was a painful experience. Since then, he only captures Autobots for him in return for upgrades, which he will take from employer and prey alike. He was disgraced by his master and later returned to kill him as his first job as a bounty hunter, stealing Yoketron's helmet and most of the protoforms he guarded. It truth, he was originally an Autobot CyberNinja who trained under Yoketron. Though labeled a Decepticon in the toyline, he is actually a rogue bounty hunter with no allegiance to the Autobots or Megatron (though he was referred to as a "a disgrace to the glorious name of Decepticon" in the past by Lugnut). Lockdown is a rogue Transformer from the Transformers Animated series. " They'll never see me coming." (Stealth Lockdown) " My sensors detect your fear." (Blazing Lockdown) Arm the Lonely Once Tyrest was defeated, Lockdown and his crew fled Luna 1.īounty Hunter, Decepticon Warrior (Blazing Lockdown) House of Ambus The Titan Hunters were later ordered by Tyrest to suppress the attacking Circle of Light, who had escaped confinement thanks to Cyclonus and Whirl. The Fecund Moon Rodimus led them on a merry chase across the moon and through the corpses of their titan victims, but Lockdown was eventually able to capture the intruders and bring them before Tyrest. In "This Calamitous Life" Some months later, Lockdown and his Titan Hunters confronted the crew of the Lost Light again when they found Luna 1, Tyrest's headquarters. Though Trailcutter's forcefield powers were shorted out at the time, unbeknownst to the Decepticons, he bluffed Lockdown and his team off his ship with some creative use of its gravity generators and his magnawheels. In order to retrieve a Titan fragment, they boarded the Lost Light while the entire crew was paralyzed.the entire crew except Trailcutter, that is. In "The Reluctant Specialist" At some point Lockdown was put in charge of a team of Titan Hunters by Chief Justice Tyrest, who tasked them with hunting down and killing Metrotitans for their parts. ![]() After he killed the Slaver, and Dai Atlas arrived with a fresh crowd of third faction warriors, Lockdown chose to depart in the face of overwhelming odds. Their personal combat was interrupted when the lead Slaver killed Drift's mentor, Wing, and Drift broke off to avenge his friend. In "Drift issue 4" Lockdown was furious at Drift for abandoning the Decepticon cause, and scoffingly dismissed him as an "idealist" when Drift claimed he found something better to fight for. However, when they met Deadlock at the arranged site, he had an army of Transformer deserters with him ready for a fight, plus he had been completely rebuilt and renamed himself "Drift". Lockdown suggested that Deadlock lead the hidden Transformers into an ambush, and commented that Megatron's faith in Deadlock had best not be misplaced. In exchange for helping find Deadlock, they demanded to be led to the hidden Transformers if not, they would take Deadlock for their own purposes. The slave traders had other ideas, and noted that there were other Transformer deserters somewhere on the planet, ones who must have partially rebuilt Deadlock. In "Drift issue 3" Lockdown explained to Deadlock that even though Deadlock's former boss, Turmoil, wanted Deadlock dead, Megatron felt that Deadlock was too important to his plans to have him be destroyed. Lockdown, with the help of some slave traders, found Deadlock on an unassuming planet where a mysterious third, neutral faction had been in hiding for eons. In "Drift issue 2" When the infamous Decepticon Deadlock failed in a mutiny against his commander and deserted, Megatron called on the bounty hunter Lockdown to find him and return him to the Decepticons. So he's not afraid to tell his colleagues exactly what he thinks of them, for better or for ill. He runs a very tight ship and is straight to the point. so he can earn an even topper dollar! Like any good bounty hunter, he's all business and does whatever it takes to haul his bounty in. Lockdown will pay top dollar to get what he wants. I was able to update my Inreach Mini without issue on Ubuntu. However, I also wanted to make the install 100% headless/unattended and noticed some other things. Just tried this all out, and it all works with 's notes. But companies are going to do their thing I guess. Given that Garmin GPSes just mount as USB drives, it's really ridiculous that you need software to update their maps in the first place and that there isn't a manual process for doing so. Maybe you'll have more luck though because this software appears to just randomly break sometimes. The upshot is that if you're finding this thread, MJWootton's comment works to install as of October 2022, and you should be able to at least download new firmware, but you may not be able to update maps. so maybe it just doesn't like my computer/distro. That being said, Garmin Express also appears to be just kind of wildly temperamental in general - it refused to install until I updated Windows, then refused to boot after I installed it until I uninstalled it, cleared out its cache files, and then reinstalled it. Was able to finally get a Windows 8 VM up and running for comparison, and maps do update, so it does appear to be a Wine issue (or maybe a Linux USB issue judging from some stuff I've read online?) - not a device issue. Express isn't installing in any of my VMs, so □, it's tough to debug that. I don't have the software installed to check to see if they import. Could mean it's a problem with the device, could be irrelevant. Express unsurprisingly doesn't show any user-accessible errors, it just says the maps failed to install.Įdit: I am able to download the maps locally to my device for Garmin's planning software or whatever it is. I'll try to boot up a Windows VM and test to see if I see similar errors there. Maybe there's a manual install process that I just haven't found.ĭevice firmware updates do appear to work, I vaguely wonder if they're using a different encryption strategy? Or maybe there's a completely separate problem that I'm not aware of. That leads me to, I suspect that when Garmin tries to download the maps it can't properly encrypt/decrypt them or something. The followup problem is that maps fail to update (at least for the nuvi 25 series), throwing the errors in Wine: 02fc:fixme:secur32:get_cipher_algid unknown algorithm 23Ġ2fc:fixme:secur32:get_mac_algid unknown algorithm 200, cipher 23 NET (and maybe the other stuff like d3dcompiler_47 was necessary, I'm not sure). ![]() On Manjaro I had similar results, needed to update. ![]() Do you have any suggestions? The terminal produced the following output: $ WINEPREFIX=/home/$USER/GarminExpress wine explorer /desktop=garmin,1366x768 /home/$USER/Downloads/GarminExpress.exeĠ041:err:ole:ClientIdentity_QueryMultipleInterfaces IRemUnknown_RemQueryInterface failed with error 0x80004002Ġ042:err:ole:marshal_object Failed to create an IRpcStubBuffer from IPSFactory for Ġ03b:err:combase:RoGetActivationFactory Failed to find library for L"" Try installing again." I tried the solution suggested by serv-inc, but the problem persisted. I installed the prerequisites without issue but when it came to install GarminExpress itself, I received an error message reading "Garmin Express could not be installed on this computer. ![]() Hello & thank you so much for your guide. I have successfully done this method before with my MacMini when upgrading it's drive to an SSD. I would like to run the installer as per normal and select the connected SSD when prompted on which on disk to install on. I'm trying to install El Capitan on the SSD, which is connected via USB. The machine is a 2008 MacBook Unibody running El Capitan (updated from Snow Leopard) The issue I have been trying to solve for hours and hours now is that after downloading El Capitan, it doesn't create the ElCapitan.app in my Applications folder. I've recently decided to liven up an old 2008 MacBook Unibody by buying a new SSD. 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