Just checked with IE7 and mine are mostly Pentax or things pretending to be Pentax. One is something called update detective, which sets my personal spyware alarm off. I do get the occasional 'are you single' and one from Dell computers. I also get really irritating ones once in a while which make stupid noises.

Some modem routers have a facility to block some urls, and if you apply this to pagead and tradedoubler most of the adverts will disappear.

Completely off topic, I have just noticed that Firefox's spell checker is fine with "IE7" but rejects "Firefox".

I'm happy with it, but it's not quite up to the DA* 50-135.

Out of interest what is your lens reported as in the EXIF data?

I'd have been chuffed to take them Scott.

This is about the only site I use Firefox for. It clobbers the adverts with it's ABP. I did find an add on for IE7 called IE7Pro, which did stop the adverts, but is very intrusive, hijacking my homepage. The only way I could get rid of it was to restore my C drive from an image. I would not recommend it.

Salt? Open wound?

Out of interest Peter, how much does that beast weigh?

Does this story seem depressingly familiar - see also the DA* 16-50. When they are good they are stunningly good, and when they are bad---

Is it about time someone gave Pentax a kick in the QCs?

Another vote for the 150-500. I find the focus excellent - quick and virtually silent, and with my limited talent, the IQ is just fine.

You will need a substantial tripod if you use one, or some Weetabix.

Mike - what's your fee for a DA 12-24

I'm puzzled here Peter.

A piece of software I wrote some years ago for a flight simulator included a replay function, so the pilot's actions could be played back to them. This we did by writing "snapshot" files at the rate of one per second to a PC hard drive. this was on a 40 minute rolling loop. once the 40 minutes was reached, the the system started deleting the oldest file and replacing it with the newest. When the software was shut down, it deleted all these files. One way or another, a lot of file creations and deletions.

We had no issues with discs filling up.

My instant reaction is "What is he thinking about?".