Arūnas Liuiza » English

Welcome !

Arūnas Liuiza — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:25:42 +0000

Well, welcome to personal blog of Arūnas Liuiza. Speaking in programming terminology, version 2.0 alpha :). About two years ago, I purchased this domain, installed a copy of WordPress, published some articles in English, and forgot it. Now I am trying to become a blogger again.

This won’t be a themed blog. I will try to write about everything I am interested in. And as I am interested in many different things, this is going to be a blog about everything – starting with web development or marketing and finishing with fiction literature or Lithuanian language terminology. Just now, you can find my articles, that I wrote at pixel.lt, programuotojas.com and elsewhere. Version in English is staying, you will be able to find all the old posts there as a monument for my first blogging attempt. It won’t be just translations of my Lithuanian posts, more original ones. Most probably I won’t write much in English, just to keep my form, and just about the things that should be interesting not only for the Lithuanians. Anyway, the main language of this blog should be Lithuanian.

That’s it for now. I hope my writings will be interesting not only for me :)

See ya!

Explode function for Delphi/Lazarus

Arūnas Liuiza — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 22:44:08 +0000

PHP has a nice function Explode, that divides string into several smaller strings using some symbol as a divider: for example string ‘Cats|Dogs|Cows|Horses’ can be exploded to array(’Cats’,’Dogs’,’Cows’,’Horses’);
Today I wrote a similar function for my Lazarus project. If someone needs it:

function Explode(S, Bomb: String): TStrings; var i : integer; p : string; begin result := TstringList.Create; while Pos(Bomb,s)<> 0 do begin p := ‘’; for i := 1 to Pos(Bomb,s)-1 do p := p + s[i]; result.Add(p); Delete(s,1,Pos(Bomb,s)); end; result.Add(s); end;

Problems with Samsung SCX-4100

Arūnas Liuiza — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:40:42 +0000

Yesterday I purchased a brand new Samsung SCX-4100 multifunction printer/scanner/copier. Its a cheap one, with a little bit annoying Russian language set by default. Buttons are also titled in Russian. another rather unconfortable thing is that there is no printed User’s guide – only digital one in the CD. Machine supports both, LPT and USB connection, but only the LPT cabble is included to the package. So I had no choice but to use this one to connect the printer to my PC.
And here the show begins. Copier works just fine, as it is processed internaly, but PC scanning is not working. Machine starts scanning and then displays a message “Port is disabled”. Hmm, interesting… What about printing? If we print plain text, it is alright, but when we come to more complex tasks, such as tables or pictures, strange things begin. Instead of a picture printer prints such message:

INTERNAL ERROR – FALSE
positionL 0x7d06f (512111)
system: h6fw/xl_image
line: 476
version: qpdl 1.22 12-02-2003

Quite informative, huh? Anyway, we have Google Almight at our hand, don’t we? Let’s give it a try – “Samsung SCX-4100 WinXP install problems”. No good… Lets take another look… And another.. And another… No good. After a long evening and quite a pile of paper ruined I found a site where similar error is mentioned. Cool!!! Just one problem – they write in Italian there Anyway, Altavista’s Babelfish gives me a hand in this case. Just to find out that nothing useful is written there…
This morning i took my last shoot – bought an USB cable. And you know what? It works