TeN

The Engineering Network (TeN), officially The Engineering Network Bulletin Board System, or TeNBB, is an electronic display-only bulletin board system used to display slides on a collection of displays, called clients, located throughout the engineering buildings at McGill. Physically, the clients consist of flat panel displays connected to diskless computers, network-booted using PXE and TFTP (to load the Linux kernel) with NFS (to provide the root filesystem, containing the display system software). TeN slides are posted by users, who are each allotted a number of slide spots (possibly unlimited) in which to post slides to one or more clients. Managing slides and slide spots is performed via the TeN administration interface, a website existing on the TeN server, located at ten.mcgilleus.ca.