每周一次，我们收集三个优秀的读者提示，并与更多的“如何极客”读者分享。本周我们将讨论如何从命令行运行电子书服务器，如何获得便宜的硬盘，以及如何调整Windows8菜单。

从命令行运行calibre以实现无损坏共享

这个提示实际上是出于读者的好意。针对我们的指南如何在世界任何地方访问您的电子书收藏，James分享了他使用Calibre的技巧：

Calibre offers a stand-alone server, which is run through Command Line.

Once Calibre is installed it is as simple as writing a Batch file in notepad specifying a few details.

An example of this is:

calibre-server –port 8080 –with-library C:\Users\Admin\Documents\Calibre\Nameofyourlibrary\

This will run the server portion of Calibre only, freeing up resources( I run two instances of the server, one for me and one for my wife, and notice no performance decrease by doing so).

The only downside to this is a DOS window will stay up if you are running windows, on a linux distro you can add the command –daemonize , which will allow the server to run silently in the background.

As a work around for the DOS window staying up, you can download a little program called Batch To Exe Converter, which has an option to run in background. Then you simply place the .exe wherever you would like, I put mine in the startup folder so Windows would run the exe automatically on startup. No more dos window, and the server runs in the background, always available for when you need it!

为什么这个命令行技巧有用？有两大原因。首先，它降低了您的开销—如果您只需要在后台运行服务器，那么就不需要运行整个应用程序，包括GUI。第二，这一点非常重要，如果您将图书收藏存储在媒体服务器上，它允许您远程管理收藏，而无需担心损坏它。如果您在地下室的媒体服务器上运行全口径应用程序，然后在楼上的桌面PC上启动Calibre应用程序来编辑您的收藏并添加新书，那么您有两个副本同时访问收藏，很有可能出现问题，并且收藏数据会丢失变得**。使用James的命令行技巧，您可以只在媒体服务器上加载content服务器，然后从实际使用的桌面以Calibre格式加载完整的集合。这使分类和编辑集合的过程与提供内容的过程保持分离。

廉价的大硬盘

马克写了以下提示，以得分更大的硬盘驱动器在一个巨大的节省：

I saw your article the other day about the inflated price of hard drives after the Thai floods. Here’s a great way to score a big hard drive on the cheap. I wanted to upgrade my media center with a few extra large capacity drives but, as luck would have it, I made this decision once the hard drive prices had sky rocketed. What was going to be a sub-$400 purchase of a couple 3TB drives became far too cost prohibitive—there’s no way I was going to spend $350-400+ a piece on a 3TB drive.

None the less, I ended up with 2 3TB drives for a mere $240! Even though bare drives and drive kit prices went through the roof, the price of external hard drives has stayed fairly stable. I picked up two 3TB drives on sale for $120 each. I cracked them both open and found a nice big fat drive inside. It’s not covered under warranty of course and it’s a rather slow drive (5400 rpm) BUT for storing video in what amounts of a glorified TiVo, I’m more than happy with it.

很好的发现，马克。就像你说的，如果你不介意在购买当天取消保修，而且低速也不是问题，你可以以极低的价格获得一个巨大的车程。

保留Windows7的“开始”菜单，在Windows8中享受metro用户界面

Carl在文章中为那些对Windows 8设计选择感到恼火的人提供了一个建议：

I’ve been playing around more and more with Windows 8 and there a few things that really irritate me. What I really wanted was to enjoy the start menu style from Windows 7 but without having to totally abandon the Metro UI. I found this great little portable app called Metro Cheat. It enabled the classic menu in the Metro UI. The only complaint I can log is that in order to use it you have to turn down the UAC protection, although this seems more like a Windows issue than anything the developer has control over.

谢谢你写信给卡尔！我们认为这是令人兴奋的，人们已经调整和修改Windows8以满足他们的需要。

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