Quickstart: Raspbian (Raspberry Pi) Essentials

Prepare booting SD card
SD card > 4G, http://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/README.md

Example with Raspbian
- Download: http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_latest
- Download the Win32DiskImager utility from Sourceforge Project
- Make booting SD card from the downloaded image using Win32DiskImager

USB Serial Console (no need a monitor and keyboard)
https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruits-raspberry-pi-lesson-5-using-a-console-cable/overview


VNC Server
http://elinux.org/RPi_VNC_Server

Youtube player
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/whitey

Enable IPv6
Easy. sudo modprobe ipv6 will enable it immediately. If you want it to automatically be enabled at boot, just add ipv6 on a line by itself at the end of /etc/modules.  

Tips
- SD card will appears in Windows only with its boot partition, which is few hundred kb
- If Ethernet doesn't work, check power source using official cable