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Nine Ball Making a Comeback?

Posted on 24. Jun, 2009 by .

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Not really. Sad that a computer virus gets it in the news better than pro tournaments.

From: http://blogs.channelinsider.com/secure_channel/content/malware_worms_viruses/nine_ball_in_the_hype_cycle.html

If someone is talking about Nine Ball to you today, it’s likely not about a game of billiards. Nine Ball is the latest worm compromising Websites and infecting unsuspecting PCs with a Trojan. Detected less than a week ago by researchers at Websense, the new worm has already compromised more than 40,000 Websites worldwide.

Sounds serious, eh? Perhaps. But there are conflicting reports over the severity of Nine Ball.

Some security vendors, such as Websense and Trend Micro, are warning about the mass injector attack that will lure and redirect unsuspecting Web users to a malicious site and download a Trojan and spyware on their machines. Websense and Trend Micro equate the Nine Ball threat to that of Gumblar and Conficker.

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Brunswick sells Valley-Dynamo division

Posted on 11. Jun, 2009 by .

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http://www.ybw.com/ibinews/newsdesk/20090414144655ibinews.html

Brunswick sells Valley-Dynamo unit

By IBI Magazine

Brunswick Corp has sold the assets of its Valley-Dynamo operating unit to a limited partnership based in Texas. The unit manufactures coin-operated billiards, pool tables and air-hockey tables.

“We had earlier identified Valley-Dynamo as a non-core asset, which we intended to sell,” said Daniel Kubera, Brunswick spokesperson, in an email.

Brunswick acquired Valley-Dynamo for US$34.5m in 2003. Two years ago, it moved the company’s manufacturing operations from Dallas, Texas to Reynosa, Mexico.

Kubera said the assets were acquired by a limited partnership controlled by Kelye Stites, owner of Champion Shuffleboard Ltd and other businesses in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

(14 May 2009)

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Hoppe Easter Everybody!

Posted on 12. Apr, 2009 by .

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Wille Hoppe

Wille Hoppe

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Tip question

Posted on 15. Mar, 2009 by .

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Yesterday, I received the following message from a reader:

If you break with your shooter and the tip becomes mushroomed, does that actually compact the tip and make that tip harder? (First of all, I would never break hard with my shooter) My friend Robert has a shaft that I am going to try out and when he handed it to me, the tip was mushroomed because he used to break with it and it’s a medium tip. So is that tip likely to be more like medium hard or should I just reshape the tip and it should still react as normal?

Chris R.
Dallas, TX

It’s going to be the same hardness whether he re-shapes it or leaves it mushroomed. The process of mushrooming makes it play a little harder, although very slightly. The tip is more likely to get/play harder as the height is sanded off the tip as it ages. The thickness of the tip is the important thing in the tip hardness. By mushrooming, it is getting slightly less tall. Same thing with sanding, scuffing, and shaping. This is the problem with non-laminated tips. They play very different when tall and brand new, and at the end of their life at the thickness of a dime. Layered tips offer several advantages: Consistent hardness through the life of the tip, Extreme resistance to mushrooming, Harder in general than non-layered tips.

Mike

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