That is why I asked. Did not want to double them. Personally I prefer personal control over automation.

I liked the manual control when it took a few hours to configure a newly installed system. When my system configuration became so sophisticated that it started to take more than one day to restore that configuration in a newly installed system I started to develop my set of the installation and configuration scripts.

Since that day I don’t touch any configuration file manually when I need to change something in the system. Instead I add the procedure to the appropriate configuration script and I run it once again.

As a result when the new system version appears I install it and than I run nine scripts which configure it. The whole procedure takes a few minutes (including two reboots).

I'm developing a homebrew computer around a microprocessor from the late seventies. I assure you I have total control. I mean, I like little systems because one can know them through, but there is enough complexity not to get bored.

You talk about learning a new things. I talk about repeating the same actions again and again. The first is good (or interesting) – the latter is bad (or boring). I assume we both like to learn some new things and we both dislike to do exactly the same things in a continuous loop.

That's the good thing about programming. Anytime a thing gets boring because of repetition or great mental focus, you can make it automatic. Of course this time the automation comes from you. Many people say, "but I have to do it now, it's faster if I do it manually". Most likely it'll have to be done again, and again.

I knew that we have a lot of more or less modern versions of Shakespeare’s works in Polish language but I didn’t know that English-language people have some modern version as well:

Original text:
Modern text:

Just for fun:

I left Argentina in 2001. I remember that government decided
each year if using daylight time or not, if one or two hours.
If someone want to know what "improvisation" is go to Argentina
:). Here is well explained:

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hora_oficial_argentina

This resume in english is useful:

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Argentina

In a desktop I would change the time manually. I would use UTC
on the whole machine on a server. Perhaps someone esle has a
better idea.