Hacking your XO

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Contents 1 Customizing the language 2 Customizing your wireless experience 3 Hacking your case 4 Hacking Sugar 5 Hacking your antennae

[edit] Customizing the language

Machines come with a localized keyboard and a country code in the manufacturing data; the latter determines what language interfaces are in. Changing this in the appropriate config file is straightforward but as yet undocumented.

[edit] Customizing your wireless experience

• You can make your XO a mesh portal.

[edit] Hacking your case

• Stickering and tagging
• You can convert a B into a C machine or later with tweezers and a screwdriver.

[edit] Hacking Sugar

• make the mouse more sensitive
• remap the keys in ebook mode
• login multiple users and desktop switch between sugar sessions

[edit] Hacking your antennae

• Making a directional antenna