This is a personal website so I've included some info about me.


I'm a Greek, living in London-UK for the past 5 years.

I was born in Rhodes-Greece in 1976. My family moved to Vlahioti-Lakonia-Greece (near Sparti), when I was 10 months old though. I lived there until I was 18. Then I spent less than a year in Athens-Greece before coming to England in 1995. For two years I was in Chichester-West Sussex and since 1997 I live in London (West Hampstead area).

To make things a bit more complicated, according to my passport, my place of residence is Kounoupia-Arkadia-Greece (which happens to be my father's village - have a look at my photo_album or at http://www.kounoupia.net).

(Who said that life is simple...)

The reason for coming to England was to study medicine. I did 2 years of A-Levels and then I spent 3 years at UCL Medical School (http://www.ucl.ac.uk). Gradually I realised that medicine wasn't really the right career choice for me, so I dropped the course.
  
Currently I work for Nielsen-EDI (http://www.nielsenedi.com), as a Night Manager for the call centre. It's a part-time position (even though I end up doing up to 60 hours some weeks...). We call all the cinemas in the UK and Eire every single night of the year, and we enter the figures in a database. At the end of the night (12am-2.30am) I run reports that I fax/email to our clients. Our clients are mainly the Film Distribution companies (20th Century Fox, Buena Vista, Entertainment, UIP, Warner Bros, Columbia) and cinema chains (Odeon, Warner Village, UGC, Cineworld, Showcase). So, if you've ever heard how much money a film made, it's was us who worked on it.

I am also a student at South Bank University (http://www.sbu.ac.uk), on the "BSc in Computing" course.

During my spare time, I "play" with my computers. Currently at home, we have 5 machines with the following specs:

1) AMD 166 MHz - 16 MB RAM - Smoothwall Linux
This is our internet firewall router machine - very basic, but it does the job!

2) AMD K6-3 400MHz - 128 MB RAM - Win98
My sister's PC (will run Linux as well soon...)

3) AMD K6-2 500MHz - 128 RAM - Win2000
My girlfriend's PC ( --> to be upgraded soon: It doesn't play "The Sims" very well... )

4) AMD ATHLON 1600+XP - 256 (DDR) RAM - MANDRAKE 8.2 GNU/Linux
This is my main machine, Gigabyte GA-7VTXH with the VIA KT266 chipset) with a CD-writer,TV card, GForce4 MX440 graphics, 4.1 sound, DVD etc etc...
I still have an old AMD under my desk (have a look at my photo_album area to see it!). It runs at 40MHz (yeah baby!). It has 40MB hard disk and 4MB RAM. As you have guessed already, I'm not using this machine a lot...
I also have a spare hdd (15gb) with windoz on - I need it for the Uni work...

5) INTEL CELERON 333MHz - 128 MB RAM - Mandrake 9.0 GNU/Linux
This is a machine that I bought for £10, and I spiced it up a bit... It has a 15GB hard disk, and it is sitting next to the firewall in our kitchen - we use it as an ftp-mail-web-file server, and we also play mp3s in the kitchen (I use a logitech usb joystick to control the volume-track-on-off etc, using the built-in joystick plug-in!... People get impressed - and it's so easy to set up!)
By the way, this is the only machine in my collection with a intel processor - I wish it had an AMD as well.

I also "play" with C++ (still I'm a beginner though), and content management systems. PHP and mySQL look interesting too!...
 
I don't really play any games now. I used to play Age of Empires for years, and I became a big fan of Unreal Tournament the for first three months of the ADSL connection. Now, I just can't be bothered.

My favourite OS is GNU/Linux, and my favourite distribution is Mandrake 9.0. I prefer Mandrake from the other distributions because it is very easy to set up, very friendly to use, and very well integrated. I am about to take the Linux+ certification (probably by the end of December 2002).
I have already taken the A+ certification.

That's enough for now...