Shims and shim stock are used to fill in a space between two mating surfaces or components. Shim stock consists of thin pieces of metal, plastic or other material used to fill space between objects ...

Wood shims are thin, triangular blocks of wood used as spacers to make minor adjustments to the position of two adjacent ...

Linux has a shim problem. Which naturally leads to a reasonable question: What’s a shim, and why do we need it? The answer: Making Linux work wit Secure Boot, and an unintended quirk of the GPLv3.

We're talking here about a cheap, small plastic or metal fixture called a shim. Pop one (or more) behind the hinges of your ...