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Ask Slashdot: Command Line Interfaces -- What Is Out There? 383

Posted by Soulskill from the anything-but-the-truth dept.
Mars729 writes "GUIs are walled gardens in that features available in one piece of software is not available to other pieces of software. However, there is software out there with command-line options that can make software features accessible to power users and programmers. Some important ones I have uncovered are:
  • Exiftool: A command-line application that can read/write almost any kind of metadata contained in almost any filetype
  • Imagemagick: This and similar software like GraphicsMagick is a full-feature toolkit for displaying, converting and editing image files.
  • Irfanview: Like Imagemagick but faster, although it has much fewer features.
    FFMpeg: For video files
  • VLC: For audio and video files
  • Aspell: A command line spell checker
  • Google Static Maps API: A URL with coordinates, markers, zoom levels and other options to show a custom map from Google Maps. (I just uncovered this: no need to learn KML!)

Less useful but still useful are command shells. These provide file management mostly. I believe some of them may allow for sending and retrieving email messages. Also useful but less accessible and with a steeper learning curve are software with APIs and scripting. Examples would be Visual Basic for Applications in office software and groovy scripting for Freeplane. What else is out there?"

Submission + - Really? UMB Now Requires Microsoft or Apple Products for online Banking?! (umb.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Just logged into UMB and got a new updated Online Banking Agreement which included (new items in italcs):
E-sign Consent

In order to access your Account(s) through online banking, you must agree to the terms and conditions outlined in this Agreement (which includes this E-sign Consent). You consent to receive the Agreement electronically, including any update or amendment to the Agreement that we make from time to time, by clicking on the “I Agree” button below.

In order to review the Agreement in electronic form, you will need a personal computer, tablet or other electronic device and the ability to download and print. Your computer must have an operating system from Microsoft or Apple that is generally supported in the marketplace by the software developer, and a browser of your selection supported by your operating system that can successfully access and interact with normal online banking functionality, including the ability to transmit and receive financial information through encryption software typically used in the banking industry. We currently support recent versions of the following browsers: Internet Explorer®, Mozilla Firefox®, Google ChromeTM and Safari®... Failure to accept will prevent your future access to Online Banking
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Google Bots Doing SQL Injection Attacks 156

Posted by Soulskill from the it's-not-a-bug,-it's-a-feature dept.
ccguy writes "It seems that while Google could really care less about your site and has no real interest in hacking you, their automated bots can be used to do the heavy lifting for an attacker. In this scenario, the bot was crawling Site A. Site A had a number of links embedded that had the SQLi requests to the target site, Site B. Google Bot then went about its business crawling pages and following links like a good boy, and in the process followed the links on Site A to Site B, and began to inadvertently attack Site B."

Submission + - Scientific American's silencing of a blogger (wired.com)

Submitted by Lasrick
Lasrick writes: This is pretty astonishing: Danielle N. Lee, Ph.D, the Urban Scientist blogger at Scientific American, has been mistreated twice: once by the blog editor at biology-online.org and now by SciAm itself. The blog editor asked Dr. Lee to contribute a blog post at Biology-Online, and when she declined (presumably for lack of monetary compensation), the blog editor asked her whether she was "an urban scientist or an urban whore." Wow. Then, SciAm deleted her blog post, in which she wrote about the incident. Very disappointing.

Submission + - Irony: iPhone 5S Users Reporting Blue Screen of Death (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: It's been a long time since many have seen a dreaded "blue screen of death" (BSoD), but it's back and in the in the most unlikeliest of places. Oddly enough, some Apple iPhone 5S owners are reporting BSoD errors, though they're a little different from the ones you may remember seeing on Windows desktops. Rather than spit out an obscure error code with a generic description, some iPhone 5S devices are suddenly turning blue before automatically restarting. The Numbers app in Apple's iWork suite, a free program with new iPhones, seems to be the primary cause, though BSoD behavior has also been observed in other applications, according to complaints in Apple's support forum.

Submission + - Skype Bypasses Windows 8.1 Lock Screen 2

Submitted by ChristW
ChristW writes: From a blog entry on the Skype website, it is clear that "you can answer calls directly from your lock screen". So, if I lock my Windows PC and walk away, any passer by can answer my personal Skype calls.

Submission + - Why People Born After 1995 Can't Understand the Book '1984' (cracked.com)

Submitted by sandbagger
sandbagger writes: If you're under 20, you've grown up with the internet and after the cold war. People who are older than that grew up in a world where there was privacy and 1984 was a cautionary tale about having cameras in your house recording everything. The writers of the humour magazine discuss the generation gap in this podcast.

Submission + - Pastafarian wins battle to wear Colander .. (huffingtonpost.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Castillo is the first American to successfully have his government-issued photo identification taken while wearing a colander, though DPS officials are reportedly planning to follow up with Castillo in order to "rectify" the situation. Others have tried unsuccessfully, and Castillo told KLBK that he was surprised at his victory, which he called a "political and religious milestone for all atheists everywhere."

Submission + - France to open preliminary investigation about PRISM program (lefigaro.fr)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Paris' prosecutor office opened a preliminary investigation after a complaint by two associations of human rights who hope to determine the roles played by companies in the context of espionage. Two million communications (phone calls, SMS ans mails) are said to have been intercepted in France by US agencies.

Submission + - 55-Character Passwords Aren't Safe Anymore (vice.com)

Submitted by Daniel_Stuckey
Daniel_Stuckey writes: This weekend, the popular password cracker software Hashcat rolled out an update that makes it possible to break passwords up to 55 characters long—a big leap from the previous 15-character limit. To retrieve the original word, password recovery systems run millions of guesses through the same cryptographic function that first generated the hash value, and wait for a match. As you can imagine, the longer and more complicated the sequence, the more time this takes. But the process is advancing rapidly—now, the new version of Hashcat can conduct 8 billion guesses per second, with an unlimited number of tries.

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