retired IT geek, mostly cisco networking. cut my teeth on Novell LANs on Wall Street.
Licensed radio amateur (AB1VL) and like to hack around with digital radio circuits and projects.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
1. Being a BOINC volunteer tester beats working the daily crytoquote for fighting off old-age dementia. SETI seems to be the most well-behaved app that runs under boinc.
2) SETI and BOINC projects offer me a good way to play with computers and troubleshooting/instrumentation. And get further into linux for personal use.
3) Developers should comment published code liberally as possible. That would be a big help for noobs like me and reduce tiresome noob questions to the experienced.
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.
