Paging XP and Gravity users

I've just installed XP Pro and i *cannot* get Gravity newsreader to work.
I've tried the compatability bullshit (making every .exe in the gravity
folder compatibale) and I've tried converting the drive from FAT32 to NTFS.
Nothing works.

Can anyone recommend a decent newsreader? I think you all know what the
freebie that comes with M$ shite is like.

 

I am not sure why you have had to go through those shennanigans - I am
XP Pro & Gravity and it worked immediately - why you doing all the
'compatibility bullshit'? Can't you just download it and install? What
are the symptoms?

 

The Gravity splash screen starts and that's it, it just hangs. I tried
leaving it for over an hour but that made no difference either. I even tried
installing it onto my Win2k partition but now it doesn't work on there
either!

"XP shmecks-pee"

 

Is there a FAQ / help forum for Gravity?

 

Possibly, I'll go and have a look )

 

Whinging Courier was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

Xnews - xnews.newsguy.com or similar URL.

 

It should just work..

Go here

http://lightning.prohosting.com/~tbates/gravity/download.html and

download inst2096.zip then the super2056.zip update.

install the first one, then copy the updated exe from the second one,
all should be well in toytown.

 

Thanks man. I tried that but the same thing...

I have had a look at the FAQ from that domain and it seems that if I
download version 2.3b3 and then install 2.5 over the top this should fix it.
I've still the the SG .exe tho as this stops the preview pane jumping about
when you click on a link )

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Whinging Courier said:

Woo-Hoo!

<does a dance like the white trailer trash on Jerry springer>

"We you, we love you..."

 

Ahem. X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.60, eh?

Pint of Old Peculier, I think, it being Autumn and all.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Pip said:

<pours a pint of Old Peculiar>

I love that real ale stuff. You don't get that much in London with all
the Bud drinking pansies.

A bit commercial but I used to like Flowers Original, meself

 

^^^^

I keep seeing that in your sig and wondering what it is.... what is it?

 

Whinging Courier wrote

FreeAgent for free, obviously, and Turnpike for money.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Ginge said:

It's a rather embarrassing thing to admit but it's an amateur radio
callsign.

 

M? Isn't that fucking Scottish or something?

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, said:

MM is Scottish. M is the English call for foundation licence holders, a
sort of licence for L-Plates.

 

Whoosh. Bored now.

(had a G1 call sign almost 20 years ago)

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, said:

Yep. I went out and spent over a grand on a bunch of HF, VHF and UHF
gear and used it for about half an hour. It's still sitting in the boxes
where I put it away after testing.

I don't think it's got any more exciting. I used to be a 2m pirate about
15 years back.

 

Whinging Courier wrote

What fucking planet do you live on? You can't go more than one pub to
the next in London without finding real ales. Kinnel it is getting hard
to find a pint of Carlsberg in the city these days coz of all the
pansies drinking real ale so they can pretend they are real men.

 

wrote

(ahoy me hearty)