Is this BONIC thing the only way you can do the seti at home? 
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I'm not too familiar with this subject, but from what I can gather, it looks like seti@home is being replaced by a new system called BOINC??
Not sure on that one - Hopefully someone else can come along and help you out with that particular end of the spectrum...
However, it appears you can get the program at the link below:
setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu...
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BOINC is basically like a framework program. It's able to run multiple distributed computing projects on it, including Seti@home. The current
Seti@home (Classic) is ending possibly next month, but a new version is now on BOINC. So you install BOINC, sign up for the projects (or activate your
Seti@home account), then login to your account, and it'll download the actual program that will do the work. New versions of the the Seti application
would be downloaded automatically. Downloads and account creations of Seti@home Classic has been disabled. Either continue to run Classic until it
ends or switch to BOINC. A new Seti application for BOINC called "Seti@home Enhanced" will further the science and it will look for more things, the
processing of each workunit will be similar to ClimatePrediction.net (takes at least a month to finish). This will help solve the problem of no work.
More work could be created this way. BOINC really is superior to Seti@home Classic. While Classic was good for its time, the code is old, and since
nothing was found, in order to process the workunits again and look for different things, using different methods, a new version would have to be
created. BOINC will automatically download new applications. The chances of finding something this time with this new software have increased.
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