St. Anthony / Tech Connect help homeless in San Francisco

In San Francisco's Tenderloin district, amid liquor stores and boarded-up buildings, a partnership of nonprofits earlier this month sponsored the first "Tenderloin Tech Day." The half-day workshop was open to anyone in the low-income neighborhood with a tech problem. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi stopped by and chatted with people about their broken laptops, software-less hard drives, and their first-ever Internet experiences.

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[dabeisyin]

omg i know that girl!

[khermans]

which girl?

[jojo808]

got open source???

[yatuk]

and to those who wonder why they didn't install windows: because Ubuntu provides everything this guy is likely to need out of the box, and costs nothing. plus not to mention it's very easy and convenient, at least as much as windows XP.

[madjunir]

awesome work, specially how ubuntu helped out that nice fella :D

[eurobloke1]

This is a wonderful way to bring the digital divide!!