- about stuff
I'm Nikos G. Mavroyanopoulos, a mathematician with specialization in information security technology.
I have studied mathematics in the university
of Ioannina and got an MSc in information security technology from Eindhoven university of technology.
- math stuff
Although I studied mathematics, not all fields of mathematics are of real interest to
me. I am certainly a fan of algebra and of some geometry flavours (such as projective).
Other than that I'm also interested in software engineering, and I used to work for some software
companies in Greece and later in the Netherlands.
- reading stuff
I usually read a lot, but it really depends on the season! I've noticed that Christmas and
the end of Summer are my reading seasons. If you plan to make me a present try
Historic, historic novels and science fiction books. Those I like best, although I also
used to read philosophy books. Zaratustra was one of my best.
As you can see presently I'm mostly interested in future and past.
- writing stuff
I'm not a good writer, and I it was always difficult for me to write, but I've written, at least I tried, some
articles for some Linux/Unix related magazines: Magaz,
Dilima.
Here you can find those articles and other papers by me, mostly
in greek. It seems I'm getting improved since high school!
- music stuff
While studying, relaxing, or anything else, I certainly like to listen to music. I don't think
I would do without it. I like several artists and songs different enough to fit in a single
category. I have no strong feelings about a particular artist, but some of the ones I listen most are the Cure,
Bad boys blue, Cretu and Rammstein.
I know they are of quite different styles...
- Tavli or Backgammon?
- My hobby used (and in some degree still is) software engineering, and especially Free software engineering. Here you can find links to the projects I've worked on.
The rest of my "personal life" is not discussed here. That's why they call it
'the rest of my personal life'! It isn't that interesting, in case you were curious...
You can contact me via snail mail at:
Nikos Mavroyanopoulos
Arkadias 8,
Halandri 15234
Greece
But why bother using snail mail since you can always contact me via e-mail
at 
I usually receive tons of spam and there was a time where I got about 300 mails
per day, and from those about 6 to 10 were non-spam. So I use spamfilters
such as spamassassin which try to assassinate all the incoming advertizing e-mails.
Since I never search for false positives(it's worst than search for a needle in a haystack), some mail may get lost,
so do not make your mail look like spam :)
If you want to tell me anything secret use my OpenPGP keys at pgpkeys.asc.