Yes, it's true. Some while ago, I uninstalled Thunderbird on my work PC 
and tried to install a newer version. The newer version didn't work. So 
I removed it and reinstalled the old version. Which didn't work either. 
So for many months now, I have been unable to read this newsgroup from work.

Ah, but now I finally have a new PC. It was touch-and-go for a long time 
there, but eventually I got one.

Yesterday I was using an AMD K6-II 500 MHz system with Windoze NT 4.0 
SP6a and 128 MB RAM. (And an SiS Trio3D/2X graphics card, in case you care.)

Today I have an AMD AthlonXP 1700+ (1.5 GHz) system with 256 MB RAM 
running Windoze XP. And Thunderbird works again. Yays!

Our very own Cute Sales Girl was awarded a shiny new Intel Core 2 Duo 
laptop, thus making her desktop PC free. So I brought it over to my own 
desk, spent 20 minutes wiring it up, and then... discovered that it no 
longer boots. (Makes long beeping noises instead.)

So that got sent away to be fixed. However, our lab director's old PC is 
now fixed, so that came back and I set about using that. Until I 
discovered that it reboots at random moments. (As in, I couldn't keep it 
running long enough for it to boot up completely.) Further analysis 
showed a memory fault.

So that got sent away to be fixed [again]. However, the first PC is now 
back having been fixed. Imagine my misery when I discovered that it 
reboots as soon as it tries to read from the CD drive during startup. (I 
was trying to boot KNOPPIX.) Oddly, it only did that twice; now it works 
perfectly.

So *finally* I have a working PC. (My old one lets you log in 80% of the 
time. The other 20% of the time, it yields a Blue Screen Of Death half 
way through the login process. It is *intensely* frustrating when you're 
trying to log in to have to reboot half a dozen times!)

So... yays!

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