title: National Instruments USB 6008 and Linux
body: <p>I went to see if there was a data acquisition tool box for the program octave here but couldn't find one <a href="http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.php" rel="nofollow">http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.php</a></p>
  
  <p>What I'm trying to do is use my National Instruments USB-6008 to acquire data in octave or any other program.  I would like to be able to export data to a text file in the format of 
  year,month,day,hour,minute,second,voltage.</p>
  
  <p>so the text file would take a reading every second and the text file will have the following data inside it
  11182011054735,3.3V
  11182011054736,3.9V
  11182011054737,3.1V</p>
  
  <p>I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 Linux 64bit and a 32bit version for testing in a virtual box
  Can Octave do this? Are there any examples or can someone recommend something else if octave can't do this? </p>
  
  <p>PS:  I know matlab can do this but it's way to expensive for me.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>