What's happened to Clootie???

[savage]

Guys it's all getting a bit worrying. What has happened to Clootie? He disappeared during the judging of the last competition and has not really been seen since.

Anyone know if he's ok?

[savage]

Btw, for anyone who lives in Russia, his real name is Alexey Barkovoy.

[chronozphere]

OMG... i was just thinking the same thing EXACTLY before i saw this thread :lol:

He always helped me with my DX problems, so a few weeks after he stopped posting, i started wondering what happened to him. He didn't come back. I was planning to start a "What happened to clootie" topic, but actually i never did. :)

Still don't know anything. His website hasn't been updated ever since. It's indeed odd that he disappeared. I thought he was very busy with his new DX10 headers, and he asked what conventions to use etc...

Hope he's still alive.... :?

[savage]

I actually met up with Alexey one year when he came to London. We had a beer in Leicester Square. He seemed like a cool guy.

[Legolas]

I have found this Microsoft "Most Valuable Professional" profile (https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=CEE5643D-7E95-4CA7-BE0E-A759F307E25B) that has been updated yesterday (I hope not automatically...). :think:

[savage]

I think it's automatic. Once you are an MVP, you stay one, unless you do something really bad.

[cronodragon]

I was thinking the same last week. Still remember when I first came to this forums confusing his name as the name of the DX headers :lol: Hope he is well, and comes back soon, I was able to create my game engine thanks to his work.

[NecroDOME]

I think he helped most of us. Also helped me with some stuff...

I hope hes ok...

[marmin]

Clootie is the Pascal DirectX King We need him. :)

[Robert Kosek]

Has anyone tried emailing Clootie? It's been nearly a year since his last update, and usually within that timeframe he would have posted a demo or two of various concepts. His site has been disturbingly silent, though it is still there.

[savage]

Yes I tried email him around Christmas, but got no reply. Others should try.

[Robert Kosek]

I just so happened to visit Clootie's site again, and it would seem that his last post is now May 14th. So he's still here after all. :) That's a relief.

[chronozphere]

It sure is, but i wonder why he never visit's this site anymore. :? If he did, he would sure drop a message in this thread, i guess. :razz:

[savage]

I sent him yet another email last night after seeing this thread... Still no reply :(. Well glad to see he's alive at least.

Did anyone here piss him off so much that he never want to come back here??

[jasonf]

All I said was "This piece of Halibut was good enough for Jehovah"...


TBH, I have no idea why he's not around. I was getting worried myself. it's not nice when people just disappear without any apparent reason (although I did it a few years ago...) . I mean, sometimes it can't be helped, real-life is more important than forums sometimes ;)

[savage]

Blasphemer!!! Stone him! How very very dare you say that Real Life is more "important than forums". This will not be tolerated!
Actually I'd have to ban myself in that case.

[www.sibvrv.com]

may be try to call him? does any one know his cell/mobile phone number? btw about mails, may be he lost password :D ?

[fragle]

Clootie seems to have also posted on iXBT as late as this month (http://forum.ixbt.com/users.cgi?id=info:Alexey%20Barkovoy), so it's most probably the lack of time that's holding him off.. or something. Then there's also a part of his phone number sitting in a whois (http://private.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=clootie.ru) database apparently. Someone would only need to guess 4 more digits. Or search in a local phone book ;)

Hmm.. i wonder how much information (and how easily) it's possible to track about people nowadays..

[jasonf]

Whois is the perfect stalker database... I reckon it should be restricted for private sites. Any old nutter can find out who owns the site and furthermore, where they live... insanity!.

I reckon he'll come back in time. He's probably working on something cool and he'll be along shortly to show us all 8)


Either that or I shouldn't have kept calling him "Big Nose".. it's hard to tell sometimes.

[Robert Kosek]

Jason, whois both is and isn't the "stalker's DB", as I have paid to have my domain anonymously registered. NONE, absolutely none, of my personal information appears within the WHOIS record. The few extra dollars were worth it, in my opinion.

[jasonf]

I've never been given the option of opting out of whois whenever I've purchased a domain name.. I think it's more common in the States.

[Srki_82]

It seams that Clootie is back to live again :)

http://www.clootie.ru/
Last update: 23-Apr-2009

[Wizard]

Cool, good to know! :)

[savage]

After seeing that he posted an update to the March 2009 SDK, I sent him another email ( like I do every year ) to find out how he is, and it has been 2 days now and I still have not received a reply. I'm guessing that one of of us really really pissed him off.
I don't remember saying anything that would do such a thing and since he's not responding, I suppose I'll never know.

[chronozphere]

Maybe he doesn't check that mailbox regulairly.



I'm guessing that one of of us really really pissed him off.


That would be a shame. I hope he'll drop us a note sometime telling what happened. My guess is that it involves real-life issues.