Wood shims are thin, triangular blocks of wood used as spacers to make minor adjustments to the position of two adjacent objects. In window and door installation, they’re often used to make sure ...

When you're doing projects around the home, you may discover that you need a little extra help in the way of something called a shim. A shim is a little piece of something, typically wood, that ...

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 ...