shimming

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While at this point in the lifecycle of Windows Vista (post Service Pack 1) most applications are now compatible, deploying Windows Vista into the desktop environment early on required some "heavy lifting" and creative shimming-not to mention a few late nights.

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  1. The insertion of thin pieces of material to make two parts fit, or to fill out cracks or uneven places; also, the thin pieces so used. Shimming has been used in fitting on car-wheels when the wheel-seat of the axle was a little too small. Car-Builder's Dict.

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  • In the days when printing was done with metal type, equations had to be assembled by hand, piecing together symbols on individual slivers of metal and shimming them into position. —  American Scientist Online
  • I talk quite a bit about the tools to test for application compatibility, sharing debugging tips, and shedding some light onto the secrets of shimming up misbehaving apps. —  MSDN Blogs
  • I can categorically state that in my case we did not want the extra load on the load balancer so shimming the WAF into the load balancer was not a consideration and as for the software model, adding another module to our web server builds did not make sense for us either. —  The Web Security Mailing List (WASC)
  • These next two photos show the female, more modestly attired in shimming green without the crimson ascot. —  Here in the Bonny Glen
  • While at this point in the lifecycle of Windows Vista (post Service Pack 1) most applications are now compatible, deploying Windows Vista into the desktop environment early on required some "heavy lifting" and creative shimming-not to mention a few late nights. —  PCLinuxOS-Forums
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