I am 38 years old, work in a family run business. I am a Mac computer enthusiast, although I will use a Windows machine if required.
I like running seti at home because I feel I am fortunate to have several computers at home that spend most of their time doing nothing so why not donate the computing power?
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.