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IIS 7 .NET Globalization settings problem

For an ASP.NET MVC app I need to set my local culture settings in IIS 7 .NET Globalization. The problem is that these settings (Culture and UI Culture) periodically keep resetting back to default ...
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What is up with the attitude from sysadmins? [closed]

Every time I ask a simple request like spinning up a new server 2008 vmware instance, these guys act like i'm asking them to build the great wall of china overnight. I've had to do this myself many ...
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How do I prevent IIS from overriding my culture set in ASP.NET?

I have a client in the US that wants all time displayed as military time, but everything else is supposed to be US Culture. In my global.asax I am creating a copy of the US culture and applying the ...
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What makes it all worthwhile? [closed]

What are the things that happen in your job that make you say, "Yeah, now that's why I'm a system administrator"? What are the things that you take delight in in your job? While I did wait for a ...
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Following the Joel Test for SysAdmin; For all the places don't meet the test, what needs to be done, and in what order? [closed]

Following The Joel Test for SysAdmin there have been some great suggestions; but imagine for a sec that you're already working for someone who doesn't meet the test, or you're being asked to bring an ...
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The Joel Test for system administrator jobs

Based on “Organizational issues” — sore spots of IT? I think it would be fair to say that system administrators need to determine if a place is worth working at. There is a similar well known test ...
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“Organizational issues” — sore spots of IT? [closed]

Is it common for "organizational issues" (such as politics, organizational inertia, and selective hearing -- think Dilbert) to cause more IT problems than computers and servers do? Likewise, is it ...