If you couldn’t tell from the fact that DeskCam has finally changed, I got my computer back! Looks like the G5 was suffering from a faulty logic board. The guys at Apple Centre Broadway replaced it and she seems good as new. I would’ve had her back sooner but Friday is my only weekday off (and I didn’t fancy carrying the thing back from Broadway myself). Just in time to print out all our reception invitations…
Related link: How to Backup Your Mac with rsync. I was lucky in that I managed to boot up in Firewire mode and transfer everything to the laptop, but I really should be doing regular timed backups.