Disabling Caps Lock?

I'm new to the mac world and have a brand new macbook. Coming from a linux/X-Windows background I am used to being able to remap my keyboard's functionality, or more importantly, disable particularly undesireable parts of it and I am not yet familiar enough with the MacBook to do that.
I'm trying to figure out how to disable the Caps Lock key. I rarely need to type things in upper case and when I do, I can press the shift key.
Any insights you could give me on how to accomplish that would be appreciated.
Thanks
John

Found it. System Prefs->Keyboard and Mouse->Keyboard->Modifiers

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