SETI@home - donate idle cycles to the search for aliens

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+SETI@home is a scientific experiment that will harness the power of
+hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers in the Search for
+Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).  You can participate by running a
+program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data.  There's a
+small but captivating possibility that your computer will detect the
+faint murmur of a civilization beyond Earth.
+
+This package includes an interactive install script which allows you to
+set up a working directory under /var/db/setiathome, register with or
+log in to SETI@home, and arranges for setiathome to be started at
+system start-up.  In this case, setiathome will be executed as user
+`nobody'.
+
+setiathome will run at nice level 1 by default, with a single process.
+If you are running a SMP system and therefore would like to run one
+process per CPU, or would like setiathome to run under another user ID,
+you have to set it up manually.
+
+setiathome requires about 0.5 MBytes disk space in its working
+directory, and about 12 MBytes of memory.  If you have ample physical
+memory, it's work load should be almost undetectable.
+
+setiathome is a binary distribution currently available for FreeBSD
+2.2.6, 2.2.7, 2.2.8, and 3.1.  Newer versions of FreeBSD should be able
+to run older binaries.
+
+WWW: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/