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if you want to pick up some knowledge on wireless hacking i suggest you take a look at Paul Asadoorian and Larry Pesce. you can pick it up on amazon for about 25-30.00. I also suggest taking a look at their podcast. They work on some pretty interesting projects (http:\\pauldotcom.com)

Might want to be careful doing this on your work computer. Your admin(s), if they are worth anything, will know youve been mucking around which would be grounds for termination and or criminal charges. I would suggest you either ask to have the programs installed or try to make friends with the admins, they may give you local power user rights. You might want to ask yourself "is my job worth it". Unfortunately for many people in my company im the anal retentive asshole called the “security and compliance officer”. I spend my days looking for employees like you, building a case and pursuing criminal charges. I’m not trying to sound like a dick, just trying to give you fair warning. It's far better to get the rights in a legit manner.

holy crap, I must be getting old. Back in my day of was called "home Ec" this was the class you went to if you wanted an easy a while drooling over the girls. This leads me to another rant, why is everyone an "engineer". What happened to the day when of took a degree to obtain that title. /rant

WTF is food tech? are they teaching the McDonnalds intro in school now?

The first thing to come to mind was "BOOM HEAD SHOT, BOOM HEAD SHOT, BOOM HEAD SHOT! YEA!!"

is one of the computers on an AD domain?

nope, you want it you got to buy it. technically you can connect the devices but it will not pass data.

I used CC a couple years ago (V6 i think it was). As long as you have a subscription service to the updates its a pretty good all in one distro for someone who dont want to get their hands on the innerworkings. I ran it off an old cobalt cube for a small company i was supporting a while back.

Are you on a managed switch? take a look at the port stats to see where all the bw is going. If anything else your edge firewall should be able to give you an idea of whats making all the noise.