Timezone Selection Usability

Here’s an interesting question: when presenting a list of locations and related timezones for the user to choose from, how should they be ordered?
Having been in the internet for long enough to know my timezone, I was taken off guard when Guru.com presented me with the following dropdown list:

Naturally, knowing my own timezone and expecting [...]

Install the Latest rdiff-backup

Lately, I’ve been setting up a home computer backup system using rdiff-backup. I use rdiff-backup because it stores incremental backups and it can send the backups to a remote server over SSH. This means that, once you get passwordless SSH running, you can set up various cron jobs to backup your files to [...]