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No, not all wifi adapters are able to, I have a raspberry pi and I had issues with an adapter I had, so i had to buy a new one, personally i went with this one:
it works in windows and raspberry. I am pretty sure there are hundreds of adapters out there and cheaper ones.

https://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-WN722N-Wireless-Adapter-External/dp/B002SZEOLG?ie=UTF8&tag=wireleshackt-20

For linux environments i know that any adapter with the following chips should work

Atheros AR9271
Ralink RT3070
Ralink RT3572
Realtek 8187L (Wireless G adapters)

easy answer , joining a new "old" company in 2 weeks from now, it just happens that I will be a colleague with Dean once more and I am really looking forward to it

But if you ask me, what about in 5 years?  i would prefer to continue improving as an engineer, but I have many friends who are older  and more experienced than me who are moving to management positions even as managers or PM and to be honest sometimes i am thinking, so in 10 years from now I will be one of them? will I become the PM I hate?

Based on this thread then, I may very well advise the person whom I'm speaking with that they're in fact not only representing themselves when liaising with me but they are representing their entire team.
They should be mindful that phoning me at 5am (to inform me there is no update!), and repeatedly calling back when I cancel the call half-asleep is detrimental to their teams reputation.

I had a call from said call centre this morning at 7.45am to ask me if I had received a call today from them. 
As it's not an emergency I don't think I was unreasonable to advise they call back during normal working hours. Happy to be corrected if I was unreasonable.

based on my experience i would be happy that they even called. Usually they never call!!!! This is a great support i have to say, usually we call 1000 times to get an updated, do not remember a time that we have been called back!

a friend is getting married next Saturday and we gonna have a bachelor party this weekend   Hope we will survive, if you do not hear from me for some time, start to worry

To be honest, is not long time ago that an opportunity has been given to me and i think a major reason was that my salary expectations were low that time. Hopefully, these times passed

I understand why the companies move to low cost centers, but for me the problem is not where they move or planning to move but the quality of people(majority) who are hiring.
I do not understand how they can rip off an established team of experienced network engineers  and move them in an X country  just for the costs. And then, they do not try to hire the best engineers in the X country but the cheapest ones, who in the most cases are really bad engineers(if can be considered engineers)
As result not only their customers are getting frustrated but even some of your few remaining good engineers are frustrated, guess what will happen, they will quit...  I do not even count the outages etc.
Good engineers are over the world but when a company establishes a bad reputation, automatically the possibilities for a good engineer to join the company are minimum. Same goes for a dissatisfied customer.

If you had an experience with a return acl then check once the acl for NAT and the NAT statements

fun is when you have to do a change and somehow is not going through all the approval stages (here even for a simple ACL i have to write a document and get it approved by 2/3 people at least-does not matter if they are relevant with IT or not) .
Then after many days or weeks someone asks you , you got the approvals? Well CM move my ticket to 'ready to implement stage' so feel free to ask him

This is fun, PM fights with CM

what the packet tracer says? seems your code is correct, i would check once if there is no NAT above and second your ACL as is different the way you implement a NAT ACL after 9.x

  i also agree, go with R&S u need the fundamentals and then try to search for a job in the field. Many times your first job defines your career as a routing/security/wireless/voice guy.

And the fun continues with different sites and bgp... some messed prefix list in the core (i believe is wrong the way the prefix lists are, why to have them there but is not up to me) and some crazy things. 1 site has been fixed yesterday after spending whole day. I hope today it will take me just half day for the other one as i already have a tiny idea of what is happening

@ristau5741 , i agree, but only if you are really a master of bgp and you spend a lot of your time, studying it.  For me is a pain in the ass, i really struggle with it. I have minimal experience and generally i never spend a lot of my time on it.  I believe most of the security guys i know they really feel me .

Been on vacation for a week and in my 1st day back there is CHAOS. In a project i was working, someone somewhere messed something with the BGP (was lucky to find it as i consider myself a noob with bgp. If i find the courage i will write more later) and from that moment there is an annoying admin(server guy), who things that all the problems relies on the network end and the last 2/3 hours to my firewall!!!

As Dean says, NOOOOOOOOOOO is not the FW.

I admit i forgot 1 rule of the 300 ones (approximately), but still that rule has nothing to do with his problems, told him a thousand times, check the other end. How it ended?

Hi George, we will take a look at this tomorrow

To be continued...

I would like to know what you think?
Recently i meet and work with a lot of people who have ccnp or even claiming that are studying for CCIE or generally an equivalent exam/lvl but many of them are not good at all.
1) have the certs lost their values?
2) renewing certs (what a pain, especially if you have 2 or 3 vendors)
3) is it really worth to hunt certs after one point in your career? IF you can prove the knowledge then whats the reason? I mean, you can study, improve yourself and your knowledge but why to give the exam!

Had a similar issue on windows 8, do not remember how i fixed it but i found the solution in the following site . Maybe you can try those links
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2813275/disk-usage-100.html
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3083595

Small experience also here, have worked with few srx240 and some small boxes, i even studied the jncia but just that . The more i was working and studying the more i liked them. commit was a great feature, commit and restore previous config if i do not login in 10 minutes was also pretty amazing.
If it was up to me i would be giving a try on them at least to some small sites for the beginning. Even though i know from a friend who works on the core of one of the biggest ISP, if not the biggest at world, that are using almost only junipers and they are replacing the cisco ones with juniper.

have worked a bit with palo alto and their PANOS 5, now they are at 6 and i havent touched one for some time. I was really impressed, are miles ahead of the competition. IF we speak for small sites are the best, but they are not so fast as advertised. But overall i agree, they should be the 1st choice of everyone now or one of the 1st choices.

Actually CP have 2 problems.
1)hard disks, if you have a very busy firewall and we speak for a big model ( 100k-200k+ concurrent connections with an average of day 70-100k approx) you should expect issues with the hard disks, cp are writing everything on their hard disks and after some time you will need to replace them, be prepared for that as we know that usually these things do not end well . Bluecoat for example has similar issues but the hot swappable on them works like charm. But cp is getting a lot better also, but have in mind that.
2) they need refresh, once per year is good to be rebooted. Many zombies process and goes on. Again the busiest rule applies .

To be honest i strongly believe that all devices should be rebooted once per year, at the end of the day you always have a problem and someone (non-networking-related) is pointing that the issue is with my fw, lets failover (no change of course), lets reboot, even though you are 100% that is not the fw and they are too lazy or whatever, are always pointing you like "we had again that issue and it was the fw" "check it again" ...... So you reboot and the issue persists and after some times, Ooo is the server what a surprize.

To go back to your cp comment, always depends if we speak for a site or a big DC.