每週一次，我們收集三個優秀的讀者提示，並與更多的“如何極客”讀者分享。本週我們將討論如何從命令列執行電子書伺服器，如何獲得便宜的硬碟，以及如何調整Windows8選單。

從命令列執行calibre以實現無損壞共享

這個提示實際上是出於讀者的好意。針對我們的指南如何在世界任何地方訪問您的電子書收藏，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!

為什麼這個命令列技巧有用？有兩大原因。首先，它降低了您的開銷—如果您只需要在後臺執行伺服器，那麼就不需要執行整個應用程式，包括GUI。第二，這一點非常重要，如果您將圖書收藏儲存在媒體伺服器上，它允許您遠端管理收藏，而無需擔心損壞它。如果您在地下室的媒體伺服器上執行全口徑應用程式，然後在樓上的桌面PC上啟動Calibre應用程式來編輯您的收藏並新增新書，那麼您有兩個副本同時訪問收藏，很有可能出現問題，並且收藏資料會丟失變得**。使用James的命令列技巧，您可以只在媒體伺服器上載入content伺服器，然後從實際使用的桌面以Calibre格式載入完整的集合。這使分類和編輯集合的過程與提供內容的過程保持分離。

廉價的大硬碟

馬克寫了以下提示，以得分更大的硬碟驅動器在一個巨大的節省：

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.

很好的發現，馬克。就像你說的，如果你不介意在購買當天取消保修，而且低速也不是問題，你可以以極低的價格獲得一個巨大的車程。

保留Windows7的“開始”選單，在Windows8中享受metro使用者介面

Carl在文章中為那些對Windows 8設計選擇感到惱火的人提供了一個建議：

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.

謝謝你寫信給卡爾！我們認為這是令人興奮的，人們已經調整和修改Windows8以滿足他們的需要。

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