Playing with computers for over 25 years. An avid Linux user at home I have a small network with 8 computers, four of which I have Seti running. ET may show up some day, but I don't count on it being soon.
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.