Listen to internet radio without Flash on Mac and Linux CLI

NOTE: nice classical music option! https://github.com/klutometis/radio/blob/master/radio.sh

1. OS type
1. Mac
1. brew install mplayer
1. See this if you hit the bug: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/23503
1. Linux (Debian-based)
1. apt-get install mplayer
2. play on CLI
1. mplayer <stream>
1. e.g. mplayer http://www.antenne.de/webradio/channels/das-schlager-karussell.m3u 

Or/else:

1. paste stream link into a browser directly
2. use VLC to play stream

Ubuntu: convert desktop to server fast

Below as root:

1. apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop
2. apt-get install linux-server linux-image-server
3. apt-get purge lightdm
4. /etc/default/grub, change matching lines to below
1. #GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT [comment it out]
2. GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
3. GRUB_TERMINAL=console
5. update-grub
6. reboot

Taken: http://www.darrinhodges.com/converting-ubuntu-12-04-lts-desktop-to-server/

Quick CLI screenshots on Linux or Openbox / Fluxbox

1. sudo apt-get -y install imagemagick eog
2. import myscreenshot.jpg
1. select portion of screen with the crosshairs
3. eog myscreenshot.jpg

Asterisk pre-reqs for compiling on Debian/Ubuntu

apt-get -y install make libncurses-dev libxml2-dev sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev libiksemel-dev libssl-dev  subversion