{"id":21522,"date":"2026-08-02T18:20:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=21522"},"modified":"2026-08-02T18:21:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:21:22","slug":"journal-of-the-week-127","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=21522","title":{"rendered":"Journal of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>8\/2\/2026 Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since last night, my <strong>ASUS laptop<\/strong> has had some <strong>problem accessing the internet<\/strong>. With Google AI's help today I could quickly narrow down and changed the ethernet card's <strong>MAC address from factory to spoofed<\/strong> (Device Manager -> Network card -> Properties -> Advanced -> Network Address -> enter random 12 digit HEX numbers) the MAC address and it works right away. For some reason, the Verizon Router must be blocking the original factory MAC address. I'll <strong>reboot the Verizon Router<\/strong> later just to see if it has some corrupt cache to flush out as a better fix than the spoofed MAC address. Because I really don't feel comfortable spoofing the entire time, as if I need to scratch the itch of getting to the bottom of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8\/2\/2026 Sunday Since last night, my ASUS laptop has had some problem accessing the internet. With Google AI's help today I could quickly narrow down and changed the ethernet card's MAC address from factory to spoofed (Device Manager -> Network &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=21522\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21525,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21522\/revisions\/21525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}