Not taking sides or promoting as I concur there may be some potential concerns as to disposal of a CFL. I always keep in mind an old style mercury thermometer had 125 times the mercury of CFLs. Plus some of us, hand raised here, use to take a finger and play with mercury when a thermometer broke. I still have all my fingers and I didn't grow a second head. I have been wondering too if some of the resistance is based on the initial cost of purchase. When a homeowner can go to the dollar store and get four incandescents for a dollar versus the outlay for CFLs and LEDs there has to be some eye opening and questions. I also keep in mind some people just can't live with change of any type. The world didn't end when the nation went from analog television to HD. I have had two CFL's fail; one flickered and one just stopped working. Like many of my others, they were warranted for nine years. Each time I e-mailed Sylvania and provided them with the requested date of purchase, location and the UPC number. The first time they sent me a $5.00 voucher/coupon and the second a $10.00 voucher/coupon both good for any Sylvania product. No muss, no fuss, and each time I made some money. I know someone out there wonders as to how I disposed of the two failures. Answer: I drive past the recycling center every day going to work. DA

Please go to the link below, click on the entry for ThinkPad and 3000 Family notebooks - it should tell you the exact model. I'm not coming up with anything using IBM Thinkpad 2460. I did see some on ebay that probably ran Windows 98. If you know the operating system, you can post that also, it will give us more options. My guess is it's old and you may not be able to hook it to their high speed. Hotels I've stayed at were using a wireless network and without knowing if your computer has those ports it's hard to say. You may want to call the hotel (or where you are staying) to ask what type of high speed they have - wired or wireless. Will they have DSL or cable? Here is a link that might be useful: Product number

Tnx. Owbist for the reply. good info here. the server finally came up and reconfigured my modem. helped a lot, but I still hold my breath when I click on something. Tnx. Agn. Grady

Macs now use a Unix based OS. If you know your IP address, or if your ISP assigns you an address like userID.isp.com, you might be able to use something like scp to copy them from the Mac to your local machine.