I was just saying, last night, that I could use some more signal.

SETI@Home is beginning to suffer from an infoglut. The telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico was just upgraded. And from the sounds of this article, it was UPGRADED. To follow suit, so has the SETI@home program.

I’ve been an enthusiast for a while, and this is more reason than ever to get off my butt and get my old computers (soon of the SETI@Home Graveyard) out of storage.

They need more people. More computers. More processing power. It doesn’t matter how old your computer is. If you’ve done this before, you know how simple it is – just a screen saver running when you’re not at your computer for Windows and MacOS users. If you own ancient hardware that’s collecting dust, a net install of Debian, with a quick install of SSH (for remote access) and the SETI program, and your old computer is actually doing something worthwhile.

A Pentium 1 system, 233 mhz with 192 megs of RAM can crunch a SETI packet in an average of just under 4 days. The system’s deadline to crunch a packet? 30 days.

Worth it, in my opinion. If you have old machines lying around, and you want to get a SETI Graveyard of your own going, just let me know. I’m happy to help out.