Brian,
Here is my advice to turn his addiction against him. :) Set him up
with an eBay SELLER account. Get him addicted to selling his crap on
eBay. :) After he gets the rush of doing that a few times, you
might be able to get him to sell all the stuff that falls on you when
you try to work at his desk.
An alternative if that doesn't work is to get him interested in
Linux. If you can get him intrigued enough by the experience of
installing some variety of Linux on his Compaq, you could trick him
into trying to get it working on his other computers. Although, I
like playing with Linux, I can assure you it is a bottomless pit for
wasted time and may eat up enough of his time that he will forget
about eBay. Of course, this could end up backfiring into him buying
more computers to try and find one that Linux will install on without
any hardware problems, but if you can get him to buy into the
mentality of "winning the victory" of getting a perfectly working
install that does everything he wants to do, you would be setting up
against a mostly unreachable task that would consume him until he
gives up. :)
Not that I'm advocating manipulation, but I struggle with the
tendency as well, so I know the trick is to find things to keep
oneself occupied enough to avoid eBay and such.
Lastly, would be to tap into another of his interests, if he has any,
and find him some free software on macupdate.com or
versiontracker.com that he can use to pursue those interests.
Peace,
Todd
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